{"id":5940,"date":"2011-08-26T11:08:08","date_gmt":"2011-08-26T10:24:41","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-08-26T10:24:41","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=5940","title":{"rendered":"WSTP.com: FL welfare drug testing regime likely unconstitutional; 1500 tested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WSTP in St. Pete just figured out that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wtsp.com\/news\/article\/207575\/19\/Federal-judges-have-ruled-testing-welfare-recipients-for-drugs-violates-4th-Amendment-rights\">Federal judges have ruled testing welfare recipients for drugs violates 4th Amendment rights<\/a>, noting that 1500 Florida welfare recipients have been tested thus far under the new regime.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Wednesday, 10News looked in to questions of whether it&#8217;s saving the state money or costing more. Tonight, after reviewing Federal Court cases, we&#8217;ve learned Florida&#8217;s drug testing laws could be violating your constitutional rights!<\/p>\n<p>Since July, nearly 1,500 Floridians have taken drug tests to continue receiving welfare.<\/p>\n<p>Governor Rick Scott stands behind it, but federal judges have ruled laws like this violate the U.S. Constitution.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And they are just now figuring this out? Apparently the Fourth Amendment is a well kept secret to nonlawyers. And why is the testing still going on? Why hasn&#8217;t it been declared unconstitutional?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=5940\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}