Nice: Want Welfare in Florida? Get a Drug Test

 The Republican-led legislature and Florida Governor Rick Scott have made a common-sense move to help clean up that state's welfare policy. Scott signed a new law that requires all that would enter welfare to submit to a drug test.

Of course, the ACLU is not happy:

The law is expected to be quickly challenged. The Florida chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union issued a release criticizing it and noting that a previous attempt to test welfare recipients for drugs in Michigan was ruled unconstitutional.

“The wasteful program created by this law subjects Floridians who are impacted by the economic downturn, as well as their families, to a humiliating search of their urine and body fluids without cause or even suspicion of drug abuse,” said Howard Simon, executive director of the ACLU of Florida. “Searching the bodily fluids of those in need of assistance is a scientifically, fiscally, and constitutionally unsound policy. Today, that unsound policy is Florida law.”

Nice work, Florida!

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