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Article: Constitutional law - Fourth Amendment - Ninth Circuit upholds conditioning receipt of welfare benefits on consent to suspicionless home visits.
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- Harvard Law Review
- Article date:
- May 1, 2007
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CONSTITUTIONAL LAW--FOURTH AMENDMENT--NINTH CIRCUIT UPHOLDS CONDITIONING RECEIPT OF WELFARE BENEFITS ON CONSENT TO SUSPICIONLESS HOME VISITS.--Sanchez v. County of San Diego, 464 F.3d 916 (9th Cir. 2006).
Americans have an uneasy relationship with welfare. Still haunted by President Reagan's image of the "welfare queen," (1) the public has bemoaned the existence of "undeserving" recipients--in particular those who commit welfare fraud. Counties, seeking to minimize the incidence of fraud, have established verification procedures that inherently infringe on recipients' privacy. (2) Courts in turn must ensure that the government does not stray too far into the ...