By John Lawrence
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Since 1997, San Diego County has required all families applying for California's version of welfare called CalWORKs to submit to warrantless, suspicionless, unannounced home searches and interrogations by District Attorney investigators.
As of June 2013 about 150,000 families, or about 9,300 families each year, have been subject to these searches. This policy, called Project 100% or P100, diverts money away from the poor and has not been shown to be effective at detecting or preventing fraud.
San Diego is the only place in the whole nation which has such an intrusive, untargeted policy making it America's finest city - NOT - for the poor and vulnerable. These searches are a violation of the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution which forbids "unreasonable searches" of peoples' homes.
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Since 1997, San Diego County has required all families applying for California's version of welfare called CalWORKs to submit to warrantless, suspicionless, unannounced home searches and interrogations by District Attorney investigators.
As of June 2013 about 150,000 families, or about 9,300 families each year, have been subject to these searches. This policy, called Project 100% or P100, diverts money away from the poor and has not been shown to be effective at detecting or preventing fraud.
San Diego is the only place in the whole nation which has such an intrusive, untargeted policy making it America's finest city - NOT - for the poor and vulnerable. These searches are a violation of the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution which forbids "unreasonable searches" of peoples' homes.