{"id":8724,"date":"2013-05-09T07:32:41","date_gmt":"2013-05-08T11:48:47","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-08T11:48:47","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=8724","title":{"rendered":"New law review article: Suspicionless DNA Collection from Arrestees Violates the Fourth Amendment &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New law review article: <a href=\"http:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2261499\">Suspicionless DNA Collection from Arrestees Violates the Fourth Amendment, But Easier Expunction of DNA Records Can Help Mitigate the Harm<\/a> by Catherine A. Burke on SSRN. Abstract:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Suspicionless DNA collection from pre-conviction arrestees violates the Fourth Amendment when it is conducted without valid search warrants. The predominant policy justifications for that DNA collection (1) as a crime-fighting tool and\/or (2) a modern identification tool, like high-tech versions of fingerprints, are not compelling enough to justify treating the process as comporting with the Fourth Amendment. Arrestees do not have the same low expectation of privacy as prisoners or convicts, and treating them as if they do violates their legal presumption of innocence. The public interest in fighting crime and identifying arrestees also fit within the ordinary role of law enforcement, meaning that they do not qualify for the &#8220;special needs&#8221; exception to the individualized suspicion required for most Fourth Amendment searches and seizures. <\/p>\n<p>If the Supreme Court resolves the current circuit split over arrestee DNA collection, analysis, and aggregation in a nationwide DNA database in favor of allowing suspicionless DNA collection from arrestees to continue, then participating states should adopt measures requiring automatic expunction of the DNA records of any arrestees who are not convicted of the crime they were arrested for prior to the DNA collection within a reasonable time period. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=8724\">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-8724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8724","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=8724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}