City Challenged on Fingerprinting Protesters

[Major Variola (ret)]

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.