Originally Posted by
slippahs
It will be interesting to see how Clare Connors decides the constitutionality of a contact tracing app that is used on people who are not sick, forced mandatory quarantine facility (i.e., fancy jail), or ankle monitoring. I doubt any of these measures are going to fly legally, but many in the community are probably at the point of, screw it, just do it and face the repercussions later.
We’re theoretically already doing something not too far removed from this potential, and I haven’t heard of any specific challenges to its constitutionality, yet. These options would be to bypass the 14 day quarantine which would still be an option. Apparently courts give a lot of leeway to executives when public health is on the line. Applying these to residents starts to get more dicey, but so does treating residents differently from visitors.