10/26/2011

Federal Judge Blocks Florida's New Welfare Drug Testing Law

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A federal judge on Monday temporarily blocked Florida's new law requiring welfare applicants to pass a drug test before receiving benefits. U.S. District Judge Mary S. Scriven said it may violate the Constitution's ban on unreasonable searches and seizures.
​The judge rejected many of the state of Florida's claims of why the drug tests are legal, reports Amy Pavuk at the Orlando Sentinel. She dismantled the state's arguments that drug tests are not a search, that welfare applicants are more likely to use drugs than the general population, and that the state has a "special interest" in drug testing welfare applicants that would outweigh constitutional rules against it, reports Phillip Smith at StoptheDrugWar.org.
"Such blanket intrusions cannot be countenanced under the Fourth Amendment," the judge ruled.
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