SoylentNews is people
SoylentNews
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: 5, Insightful) by Sir Garlon on Thursday December 04 2014, @06:58PM
I gladly welcome a ruling from a high Federal court that says there is still such thing as an unreasonable search.
Can we please get those judges appointed to the Supreme Court?
[Sir Garlon] is the marvellest knight that is now living, for he destroyeth many good knights, for he goeth invisible.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Kromagv0 on Thursday December 04 2014, @07:31PM
No!
They will be painted a weak on crime, enabling drug user to get welfare, being child molesters, and/or supporting terrorists.
T-Shirts and bumper stickers [zazzle.com] to offend someone