{"id":51812,"date":"2022-03-16T10:04:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-16T15:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=51812"},"modified":"2022-03-17T02:05:05","modified_gmt":"2022-03-17T07:05:05","slug":"bloomberg-law-police-search-of-rape-victims-dna-tests-meaning-of-consent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=51812","title":{"rendered":"Bloomberg Law: Police Search of Rape Victims\u2019 DNA Tests Meaning of Consent"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Bloomberg Law: <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/us-law-week\/police-search-of-rape-victims-dna-tests-meaning-of-consent\">Police Search of Rape Victims\u2019 DNA Tests Meaning of Consent<\/a> by Lydia Wheeler:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Rape victims agree to have their bodies invaded for a second time to help catch their assailant\u2014not to make it easier for police to arrest them later in life.<\/p><p>The San Francisco Police Department\u2019s crime lab, however, has been storing the DNA collected from victims of sexual assault in a private database and searching through it years later to do just that\u2014identify them as possible suspects in unrelated investigations.<\/p><p>The practice, uncovered in a property crime case that San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin (D) has since dismissed, has raised questions about how DNA evidence is collected and stored, and when it can lawfully be searched without your consent. Though using a rape victim\u2019s DNA in that way provoked outrage, it\u2019s not necessarily an unlawful search and seizure under the Constitution, lawyers warn. The situation has brought new attention to what it means when victims give police consent to use their DNA to aid investigations, and some California lawmakers say the rules need to be updated to protect already vulnerable victims.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg Law: Police Search of Rape Victims\u2019 DNA Tests Meaning of Consent by Lydia Wheeler:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consent","category-dna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51812"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51813,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51812\/revisions\/51813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}