{"id":5994,"date":"2011-09-07T18:46:48","date_gmt":"2011-09-07T18:46:48","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-09-07T18:46:48","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=5994","title":{"rendered":"NBC Miami: &#8220;ACLU Files Suit Over Welfare Drug Tests&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NBC Miami: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcmiami.com\/news\/local\/ACLU-Files-Suit-Over-Welfare-Drug-Tests-129381093.html\">ACLU Files Suit Over Welfare Drug Tests \/ Group challenges Florida law that requires testing for welfare applicants<\/a> by Brian Hamacher:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The American Civil Liberties Union of Florida has filed a lawsuit challenging a new state law that requires welfare recipients to undergo drug testing.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit was filed Tuesday in federal court on behalf of 35-year-old Orlando resident Luis Lebron, a Navy veteran and single father who applied for assistance in July to support his 4-year-old son, the ACLU said in a statement issued Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He meets all the criteria for assistance but has refused to waive his Fourth Amendment rights against unreasonable search and seizure and submit to the newly required drug test,&#8221; the statement said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=5994\">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-5994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5994","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=5994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}