Policy Text
Kern County Sheriff’s Office
Policies And Procedures
TITLE: EMPLOYEE DRUG TESTING NO: C-500
APPROVED: Donny Youngblood, Sheriff-Coroner
EFFECTIVE: REVIEWED: REVISED: UPDATED:
August 1, 1990 05/25/2023 09/29/2008 05/25/2023
POLICY
No employee of the Kern County Sheriff’s Office shall be under the influence of, or otherwise
engage in the use, possession, transport, purchase, sale, or other distribution, of a controlled
substance, or alcohol at any time while on duty:
• Shall not report for duty within (8) eight hours after the consumption of any alcoholic
beverage, or report for duty with a blood alcohol concentration of .04 BAC, or higher.
Unless one of the following conditions exists:
• The possession occurs lawfully as a result of an on-duty seizure in the performance of
your official duties; or processing of evidence as part of a criminal investigation; or in
the performance of any other official duties;
• The employee came under the influence of a controlled substance as a result of