Re: City Challenged on Fingerprinting Protesters
At 10:49 AM 10/5/04 -0400, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
Now it looks as if much of the fingerprinting may not have been legal in the first place. According to lawyers at the New York Civil Liberties Union, the city may have violated state law by routinely fingerprinting
arrested protesters.
There is a bill in this year's Ca election to require DNA sampling of anyone arrested. Not convicted of a felony, but arrested.
There is a bill in this year's Ca election to require DNA sampling of anyone arrested. Not convicted of a felony, but arrested. Doesn't surprise me - the UK police collected a huge bunch of fingerprints and dna samples "for elimination purposes" during one of
Major Variola (ret) wrote: the child-murder witchhunts, with written promises given that the samples were just for that one task, and would be destroyed once the hunt was over. They still kept them anyway of course, and made them the basis for their new "national dna database".
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