{"id":52995,"date":"2022-08-16T13:47:03","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T18:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=52995"},"modified":"2022-08-16T13:47:03","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T18:47:03","slug":"wired-police-used-a-babys-dna-to-investigate-its-father-for-a-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=52995","title":{"rendered":"Wired: Police Used a Baby\u2019s DNA to Investigate Its Father for a Crime"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Wired: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/NACDL.informz.net\/z\/cjUucD9taT04Nzg4MTEyJnA9MSZ1PTkxMzE2NjgyNyZsaT03NzM4MDU4NQ\/index.html\">Police Used a Baby\u2019s DNA to Investigate Its Father for a Crime<\/a> (&#8220;The blood is supposed to be used for medical purposes\u2014these screenings identify babies with serious health issues, and they have been highly successful at reducing death and disability among children. But a public records lawsuit filed last month in New Jersey suggests these samples are also being used by police in criminal investigations. The lawsuit, filed by the state\u2019s Office of the Public Defender and the New Jersey Monitor, a nonprofit news outlet, alleges that state police sought a newborn\u2019s blood sample from the New Jersey Department of Health to investigate the child&#8217;s father in connection with a sexual assault from the 1990s.&#8221;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wired: Police Used a Baby\u2019s DNA to Investigate Its Father for a Crime (&#8220;The blood is supposed to be used for medical purposes\u2014these screenings identify babies with serious health issues, and they have been highly successful at reducing death and &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=52995\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dna","category-surveillance-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52995","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=52995"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52996,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52995\/revisions\/52996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}