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If Public Health officials decide to quaranteen an individual suspected of harboring a highly communicable disease, they must now read them their Miranda rights to assure them that they have a right to remain silent and be provided with a lawyer if they can't afford one.

The answer is False!

The constitution protects people from unreasonable search and seizure, but public health inspections are meant to assure compliance with the law not a search for lawbreaking. No search warrant is necessary. Quarantined persons have no Miranda rights (“right to remain silent . . .”, etc) .