Court Opinion

ID: 3163684
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2015-12-17 19:00:49.809678+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:38:43.650115
License: Public Domain

PER CURIAM:
  
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  Former Shreveport Police Department officer Pat Hensley appeals the summary judgment for alleged federal and Louisiana violations stemming from a blood test for alcohol and narcotics administered at Defendants’ request.
 

  . Our thorough review of the briefs in this matter, the pertinent parts of the record, the applicable law, and the arguments of counsel reveals no error. The district court properly held that the blood test, which constituted a search, was constitutional because Defendants’ individualized suspicion of wrongdoing satisfied the reasonableness standard upon which nonin-vestigatory, work-related searches rest. The district court similarly did not err in balancing Defendants’ interests against Hensley’s privacy interest. Defendants’ articulated interests — including the need for supervision, control, and efficient operation of the workforce and the interest in and responsibility for public safety — clearly outweigh the intrusion on Hensley’s expectation of privacy. Our findings foreclose Hensley’s additional arguments which flow from his perception that Defendants violated his rights. Thus, we also find no violation of Louisiana law.
 

  We, therefore, affirm the summary judgment and dismissal with prejudice of all claims asserted by Hensley.
 

  AFFIRMED.
 

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   Pursuant to 5th Cm. R. 47.5, the court has determined that this opinion should not be published and is not precedent except under the limited circumstances set forth in 5th Cm. R. 47.5.4.