Unreasonable Searches of Urine

A federal judge  has struck down Florida's "Want a welfare check? Pee in the cup" law, saying it's essentially a search without any justification.

Florida's governor, Rick Scott, says he's only thinking of the children:

'Mr. Scott, who had argued that the drug testing was necessary to protect children and ensure that tax money was not going to illegal drugs, said that the state would appeal the ruling. “Any illegal drug use in a family is harmful and even abusive to a child,” he said in a statement. “We should have a zero-tolerance policy for illegal drug use in families — especially those families who struggle to make ends meet and need welfare assistance to provide for their children.”'

Of course, on that basis, Gov. Scott should be able to order urine tests for any user of state services.  Entering a state park? Pee in the cup. Getting your driver's license renewed? Pee in the cup. Working in a state job, from janitor to governor? Pee in the cup.

Unless, of course, the only families where we have to worry about "harmful and abusive" drug environments for children are very poor ones. What about that, Governor?

Reshared post from +Susan Stone

quote: Judge Mary S. Scriven of United States District Court wrote in her decision that the state’s testing requirement was unconstitutional. “The court finds there is no set of circumstances under which the warrantless, suspicionless drug testing at issue in this case could be constitutionally applied,” she wrote. The ruling made permanent an earlier, temporary ban by the judge.