DNA Collection Challenged
by TChris
The ACLU has filed a federal lawsuit challenging California's Proposition 69, which will eventually require all Californians arrested for a felony (whether or not convicted) to furnish a DNA sample.
"Proposition 69 is an extraordinary assault on the privacy and security of all Californians," said Maya Harris, an ACLU attorney and director of the Racial Justice Project. "It turns the presumption of innocence on its head."
In light of the genetic information revealed by DNA, the lawsuit contends that the collection of DNA from presumptively innocent people (unlike a mug shot or fingerprint) constitutes an unconstitutional invasion of privacy. (TalkLeft last wrote about the issue here.)
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