Civil liberties issues

The effort to stop drug abuse and trafficking raises a number of important general civil liberties issues, including whether persons are being stopped without probable cause that they have committed a crime, whether racial or ethnic profiles are being used instead of specific evidence involving a particular individual, and whether the use of intrusive search techniques (such as use of aircraft or heat detectors) violates privacy. 

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This section covers legal and civil liberties issues arising from the prosecution of the war on drugs. (See also the next section for issues relating to drug testing.)... 

Shabecoff, P. 1979. Job threats to workers fertility emerging as civil liberties issue. New York Times, 15 January, pp. Al, D8. 

In addition, discussions have focused on the effect of technology upon individual civil rights and civil liberties, terrorism, financial issues, and decaying technocarcasses. Such discussions have not utilized in-depth... 

The ACLU is one of the nation s oldest and most formidable advocates for civil liberties. With regard to drug law enforcement, the ACLU is particularly concerned about issues such as disparities in sentencing that affect minorities, racial profiling, asset forfeiture, and drug testing. 

Inevitably, this encouraged a growing band of anti-vaccinators who opposed this infringement of civil liberties. Local vaccination officers were appointed to enforce the laws and the number of prosecutions rose steeply. By 1873, vaccination had become an election issue and a number of strongly worded publications appeared during the run-up to the election of 1874. For example, the Reverend George Cardew, rector of Helmingham, Suffolk was vehemently opposed to vaccination and wrote a pamphlet entitled Think before you vaccinate in which he stated ... 

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