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from the unreasonable-searches-and-seizures dept.
Via Common Dreams, the American Civil Liberties Union reports
[December 3], a three-judge panel at the 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled that a 2011 Florida law mandating that all applicants for the state's Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program submit to suspicion-less drug tests violates the Constitution's protection against unreasonable government searches.
[...]The 11th Circuit panel's order rejects arguments made by attorneys for the State of Florida that government has the authority to require people to submit to invasive searches of their bodily fluids without suspicion of wrongdoing, stating "the warrantless, suspicionless urinalysis drug testing of every Florida TANF applicant as a mandatory requirement for receiving Temporary Cash Assistance offends the Fourth Amendment."
[...]A 2012 review of the TANF mandatory urinalysis program found that the state of Florida spent more money reimbursing individuals for drug tests than the state saved on screening out the extremely small percentage.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 04 2014, @05:55PM
Moral sanctimony lets the winners in life feel like they have no responsibility to the unfortunate because the unfortunate earned their lot in life. Prosperity gospel [wikipedia.org] and the hindu caste system are similar phenomena.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 04 2014, @06:47PM
Indeed, the last time I visited a church that preached "Prosperity" I stood up and walked out in the middle of the sermon. That particular day I had decided to wear jeans and a T-shirt instead of more formal clothes since I wanted to see if they would judge my appearance, and unsurprisingly I had gotten dirty looks and no handshakes or greetings when I first walked in. Apparently I wasn't prosperous enough for that church in the first place.