“Saying it is “unfair for Florida taxpayers to subsidize drug addiction,” Gov. Rick Scott on Tuesday signed legislation requiring adults applying for welfare assistance to undergo drug screening.”
Let’s see how far this gets before it’s struck down by the courts.
The courts (up to and including the U.S. Supreme Court) have endorsed drug testing in the past in employer/worker situations, as a matter of “public safety”.
But it’s going to be hard to apply the “public safety” precedent to a situation where someone is being “given benefits” in return for, well, nothing else.
I’m hoping the law can be made to “stick”, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s defeated through the courts.
Just sayin’....
Scott knows it will be struck down. The point of it is to make him look tough. And maybe something to do with his financial interests in clinics that do the testing.