Cory Mills tours Sanford drug testing center amid ethics scrutiny

The Sanford stop put Cory Mills inside a business built around scrutiny: drug, alcohol and DNA tests that employers, courts and probation offices use to decide who can work, who can drive and who stays in compliance. The Republican congressman toured Accredited Drug Testing's office at 201 N. Park Ave. while a House ethics investigation into his conduct remained active.

Accredited Drug Testing says the Sanford office is part of a much larger operation. The company lists 33 Sanford-area testing centers, 993 test centers in 1,386 Florida cities and more than 20,000 testing centers nationwide. It also describes the Sanford address as its Quest and Labcorp collection site network corporate office.

The company says it offers urine, hair, oral fluid and saliva, blood, EtG alcohol and breath alcohol testing. Its services cover employment screening, DOT compliance, court-ordered testing, probation monitoring, post-accident testing, reasonable suspicion testing, return-to-duty testing, school testing and DNA and paternity testing. In Seminole County, that mix puts the business squarely at the intersection of hiring, workplace safety and legal supervision.

Mills represents Seminole and Volusia counties in Congress, which made the Sanford appearance especially sensitive. The House Ethics Committee announced an investigative subcommittee into Mills on Nov. 19, 2025, and the probe was still active in April. That backdrop gave the visit more political weight than a routine local stop, even as the facility itself focused on testing services used by employers, agencies and families across the county.