{"id":4294,"date":"2010-06-15T08:11:22","date_gmt":"2010-06-15T08:11:22","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-15T08:11:22","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=4294","title":{"rendered":"Fourth Amendment news&#8211;DNA searches for family of offenders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2256966\/\">On Slate.com: O Brother, Where Art Thou? | It&#8217;s time for legislators to look more closely at familial searches of DNA databases<\/a>, by Natalie Ram and Michael Seringhaus:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>More worrisome is the effective inclusion of many innocent individuals in the [CODIS] database, via novel and almost completely unregulated search techniques called &#8220;partial matching&#8221; and &#8220;familial searching.&#8221; By adopting one or both of these search techniques, some states are quietly expanding database coverage to &#8220;virtually&#8221; include the innocent relatives of profiled offenders\u2014nearly always without any legislative oversight. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=4294\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}