Larry V. Lockney
2002, NR, 57 min.
Directed by Jim Schermbeck, Mark Birnbaum, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring .

Larry Tannahill, a farmer in a small West Texas community, just said no when the local school district instituted mandatory drug testing for all its students. He refused to sign the voluntary consent form for his 12-year-old son and in doing so became a Fourth Amendment test case taken up by the ACLU. Dallas-based Peabody Award-winning filmmaker Mark Birnbaum and community organizer Jim Schermbeck filmed the dispute.

This article appears in 2002.

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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years.