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Cartoon: Rick Scott, the Constitution and Drug Testing
This cartoon helps capture the struggle between Governor Scott and the state of Florida and the ACLU of Florida over drug testing.
The Fourth Amendment protects citizens from being subjected to a government search without reasonable suspicion. It’s one of the core tenets of our justice system.
That’s why the ACLU of Florida has fought so hard to stop the suspicionless drug testing of Floridians being pushed by Governor Scott and the Legislature. In the past year they have passed laws and issued orders that would subject tens of thousands of Floridians to government drug testing.
Florida is Crazy (About Drug Testing)
There’s trouble in Tallahassee. That’s Tallahassee with a capital “T” and that rhymes with “P” and that stands for “Pee in a cup.”
It’s true -- Tallahassee’s gone crazy over drug testing.
Private Prison Disaster Averted (for now)
Yesterday, the Florida Senate averted disaster by voting down (on a 19-21) a proposal to create the largest private prison system in America. The plan would have turned over nearly 30 Florida correctional facilities to private, for-profit companies, which have would run the prisons under contract with the state.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt, The Gregory Brothers, ACLU of FL Team Up on Photographers' Rights
A couple of weeks ago at the Sundance Film Festival, the open-collaborative production company hitRECord released a short animated music video on photographers’ First Amendment rights, in collaboration with the ACLU of Florida.
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