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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: 3, Insightful) by ikanreed on Thursday December 04 2014, @08:42PM
Moral Hazard is mostly pseudoscience when applied at the individual level.
And FYI: neoliberal economic theories aren't "rational reasonable thought"
(Score: 2) by Kromagv0 on Friday December 05 2014, @02:08PM
I wasn't referring to that exactly but the fact that one could understand where that belief came from and that people might hold it and not just be racist assholes as they are often portrayed.
T-Shirts and bumper stickers [zazzle.com] to offend someone