Thursday, February 17, 2022

Not Just San Francisco: Police Across the Country are Retaining and Searching DNA of Victims and Innocent People

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(by Jennifer Lynch | Electronic Frontier Foundation) – This week we learned that San Francisco Police used a woman’s own DNA—collected years earlier as part of an investigation into her sexual assault—to charge her for an unrelated property crime. What’s worse—it appears the S.F. police routinely search victims’ DNA in criminal investigations. This practice is possible because San Francisco has been storing DNA gathered from rape survivors in the same local database where it stores DNA from rape assailants and other suspects. The San Francisco District Attorney stated the database potentially includes thousands of victims’ DNA profiles, with entries over “many, […]

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