{"id":350,"date":"2008-10-22T23:36:33","date_gmt":"2008-10-23T03:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clay.blogdns.net\/?p=350"},"modified":"2022-04-16T16:48:33","modified_gmt":"2022-04-16T20:48:33","slug":"new-sc-law-requres-mandatory-dna-sampling-at-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/2008\/10\/22\/new-sc-law-requres-mandatory-dna-sampling-at-arrest\/","title":{"rendered":"New SC law requres mandatory DNA sampling at arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just heard about this on the evening news tonight. Basically the state legislature overrode the Governor&#8217;s veto passing a law that requires the police to collect DNA samples from people arrested on a felony charge. It seems like the focus is on getting the information to the lab quickly to run the results for possible matches on other crimes. The one big problem I see with this is that if you&#8217;re wrongly arrested, your DNA is in the system. While the government is supposed to purge the DNA records of the falsely accused there&#8217;s no guarantee that they actually will. There&#8217;s also another problem in that the larger these databases get, the higher the chance of a match between 2 unrelated profiles. <a title=\"DNA evidence called into question\" href=\"\/index.php\/2008\/07\/23\/dna-matches-not-exactly-black-and-white\/\"> I mentioned this before in another post linked to an article in the LA Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just heard about this on the evening news tonight. Basically the state legislature overrode the Governor&#8217;s veto passing a law that requires the police to collect DNA samples from people arrested on a felony charge. It seems like the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/2008\/10\/22\/new-sc-law-requres-mandatory-dna-sampling-at-arrest\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[93,115],"class_list":["post-350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-tech","tag-dna-database","tag-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1029,"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions\/1029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}