EDITORIAL DOPEY DEFENSE.THE arrest and drug scandal of former Burbank City Councilwoman Stacey Murphy clearly left a lingering lin·ger v. lin·gered, lin·ger·ing, lin·gers v.intr. 1. To be slow in leaving, especially out of reluctance; tarry. See Synonyms at stay1. 2. question for the city's other elected officials: Will the people of Burbank continue to trust the council after that embarrassing episode? In an obvious attempt to give themselves some distance from Murphy, council members last week adopted drug-testing guidelines. To be clear: This is not a policy, but rather a voluntary program for random testing (programming, testing) random testing - A black-box testing approach in which software is tested by choosing an arbitrary subset of all possible input values. Random testing helps to avoid the problem of only testing what you know will work. . The results don't even have to be made public. It's understandable for the council to want to reassure the public that it's not a pack of wild druggies. But adopting a weak and somewhat disingenuous dis·in·gen·u·ous adj. 1. Not straightforward or candid; insincere or calculating: "an ambitious, disingenuous, philistine, and hypocritical operator, who ... exemplified ... measure doesn't do much to prove the body's trustworthiness trustworthiness Ethics A principle in which a person both deserves the trust of others and does not violate that trust . Perhaps members should just do a good job of working for the community. |
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