LAW120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Rosalie Abella, Welfare Fraud, Squeegee
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Without a warrant can enter any place other than the dwelling, with reasonable grounds to believe that there is evidence relevant to determining a person"s eligibility for benefits. With warrant can enter the dwelling, with or without notice. Refusal for search = termination of benefits, unless good reason. The quality of refusal not determined by applicant/recipient. Discuss the implications of these legislative reforms on how we understand public and. Right to be left alone does not exist for a recipient of welfare. Home visits, spousal questionnaires, welfare fraud discourse, snitch lines, whether your body is intimately connected to another. Surveillance and scrutiny, lack of control of personal information. Construction of poor as persons who don"t deserve control over anything, rather they should be controlled. Safe streets act - prohibits the performing of particular activities in public spaces. Gestures for money from persons waiting at a taxi stand, public transit spot, or just people walking to their car.
