It appears the New Jersey Department of Health still believes the state’s residents are better served by giving law enforcement another way to dodge the Constitution.

The Department of Health was sued two years ago by the state’s Office of the Public Defender (OPD). That lawsuit targeted the state’s peculiar practice of holding on to newborns’ blood tests for nearly a quarter century and turning these over to investigators who just don’t feel like following the Fourth Amendment rules.

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