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Fourth Amendment news--DNA searches for family of offenders

By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

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On Slate.com: O Brother, Where Art Thou? | It's time for legislators to look more closely at familial searches of DNA databases, by Natalie Ram and Michael Seringhaus: More worrisome is the effective inclusion of many innocent individuals in the [CODIS] database, via novel and almost completely unregulated search techniques called "partial matching" and "familial searching." By adopting one or both of these search techniques, some states are quietly expanding database coverage to "virtually" include the innocent relatives of profiled offenders—nearly always without any legislative oversight.

Full post as published by Fourth Amendment on June 15, 2010 (boomark / email).

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