Chandler v. Miller

In Chandler v. Miller (1997) 520 U.S. 305, the Supreme Court found unconstitutional a suspicionless testing program that required drug testing of candidates for designated state offices in Georgia. (Id. at pp. 308-309.) The state did not meet its burden of showing "a concrete danger demanding departure from the Fourth Amendment's main rule" because there was no "demonstrated problem of drug abuse" among elected officials to "shore up an assertion of special need for a suspicionless general search program." (Id. at p. 319, ) Further, the state did not demonstrate that the policy was "well designed to identify candidates who violate antidrug laws" or that it was "a credible means to deter illicit drug users from seeking election to state office." (Ibid.)