Students Who Drive to School, Participate in Activities Affected Starting this school year, students in the Tuscaloosa City School System who drive to school or participate in school-based extracurricular activities such as sports or chess club will be subject to random drug and alcohol tests. The system's new drug and alcohol screening policy was approved by the Tuscaloosa City Board of Education Tuesday. The purpose of the preventative policy is to help create and maintain a drug-free environment as well as act as a deterrent to students who may be considering drug or alcohol use. [continues 498 words]
TUSCALOOSA -- The West Alabama Narcotics Task Force is stepping up its efforts in the burgeoning war against the near-epidemic outbreak of methamphetamine with the introduction of new program called Meth Watch. "Meth Watch is a program we're starting that'll network the Task Force and every business that participates in the program with us together by a fax machine system," said Capt. Jeff Snyder, commander of the task force. "How it works is, whenever someone buys a product that has an active ingredient that can be used to make methamphetamine, that person's information as well as the amount of the product they bought will be faxed to us and every other business in the network," Snyder said. [continues 559 words]
