HOBART -- The Hobart School Board is preparing to adopt a new drug-testing policy in which students in grades seven through 12 would be subjected to random drug tests.

School officials will determine when the unannounced urine drug tests are administered.

Students who drive to school or participate in athletics and other voluntary extracurricular activities will be selected at random for the alcohol and drug testing.

"We just want to be proactive," School Board President Terry Butler said Thursday after the drug policy passed on a first reading.

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