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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, Interesting) by hoochiecoochieman on Friday December 05 2014, @03:10PM
This is your boss. I will start demanding drug tests for you, because I don't want you spending your salary in drugs, booze or smoke. Also, I don't want you to marry a woman that will spend your money on silly things. So you will have to send any prospecting wife to me so I can approve her. I also don't want you to spend your money going to football games or rock shows, because I personally disapprove of those two kinds of entertainments. You are only allowed to spend your salary in baseball games and electropop shows.
Welcome to the Land of the Free, Home of the Brave. Where the braves who have money enjoy their freedom to dictate what the others can do with their lives.