{"id":3071,"date":"2009-04-19T16:38:51","date_gmt":"2009-04-19T16:38:51","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-19T16:38:51","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=3071","title":{"rendered":"NYT on DNA on arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s NY Times has an article about the growing number of jurisdictions that gather DNA from arrestees: F.B.I. and States Vastly Expand DNA Databases<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Law enforcement officials are vastly expanding their collection of DNA to include millions more people who have been arrested or detained but not yet convicted. The move, intended to help solve more crimes, is raising concerns about the privacy of petty offenders and people who are presumed innocent.<\/p>\n

Until now, the federal government genetically tracked only convicts. But starting this month, the Federal Bureau of Investigation will join 15 states that collect DNA samples from those awaiting trial and will collect DNA from detained immigrants \u2014 the vanguard of a growing class of genetic registrants. <\/p>\n

The F.B.I., with a DNA database of 6.7 million profiles, expects to accelerate its growth rate from 80,000 new entries a year to 1.2 million by 2012 \u2014 a 17-fold increase. F.B.I. officials say they expect DNA processing backlogs \u2014 which now stand at more than 500,000 cases \u2014 to increase.<\/p>\n

Law enforcement officials say that expanding the DNA databanks to include legally innocent people will help solve more violent crimes. They point out that DNA has helped convict thousands of criminals and has exonerated more than 200 wrongfully convicted people.<\/p>\n

But criminal justice experts cite Fourth Amendment privacy concerns and worry that the nation is becoming a genetic surveillance society. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There will be incessant challenges to DNA samples taken on arrest when the sample turns up solving a case, which effectively makes it harder to decide for the citizen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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