Police Used a Baby’s DNA to Investigate Its Father for a Crime

born in the United States within the last 50 or so years, chances are good that one of the first things you did as a baby was give a DNA sample to the government. By the 1970s, states had established newborn screening programs, in which a nurse takes a few drops of blood from a pinprick on a baby’s heel, then sends the sample to a lab to test for certain diseases. Over the years, the list has grown from just a few conditions to dozens.

Crystal Grant, a technology fellow at the American Civil Liberties Union, says the case represents a “whole new leap forward” in the misuse of DNA by law enforcement. “It means that essentially every baby born in the US could be included in police surveillance,” she says. Privacy activists have also raised alarms about what they see as similar misuses of other kinds of DNA collection. In a recent case, police in San Francisco used a sample collected during a woman’s rape exam to. Chesa Boudin, who was then the city’s district attorney, called this use of the woman's DNA a violation of her Fourth Amendment right against unreasonable searches and seizures, and ultimately dropped the charges.

They didn’t do this to my daughter in 2020…

I've got no issue with this. And think this should be the basis for a national ID database based on DNA.

I’m all for it, if it helps catch criminals and keep them behind bars instead of preying on innocent people. Unless Fauci is in charge of it. Then no.

Which will do nothing, as that would've been taken in violation of the 4th amendment

Crime Detectives, telecasted on Discovery channel, during the 90s, was only for a reason. 🧠

BlackRock is also profiting selling collected DnA material through their unethical and immoral purchase for nefarious purposes of ancestry.

日本にはこういうの必要だろ

Well, with things like this and the home DNA tests and then parents 'being cute' and doing Elf on the Shelf, we've conditioned a society to accept a police state.

The U.S is literally a Police State end of story.

and when people call US a police state they get mad lmao

So over 50 and a clean record, you can be more criminal as you head toward your final sunset 🌅

Maybe this is a good time to STOP COMITTING CRIMES!!!

WTF

There needs to be a national DNA database.

StephenBright cops 'lose' rape kits.

…

Where was the consent?

Cool, I'm not a criminal 😊

As long as they are not used for anything nefarious it's a good thing, but the other uses could be a real problem if those results fall into the wrong hands, of which there are many. Just sayin🤔

If it gets the right person in jail for a crime they committed I’m all for it.

Perfect, I have nothing to hide, no skeletons in this closet :)

Well, so much for that right..

Phew! 😅

rkhamsi 🤔 we could all keep our descendants honest by donating DNA samples to the police when we die. 😄

“Suggests” and “alleges” I look forward to reading about all the miscarriages of Justice and the innocent murder and rape suspects who have been put behind bars because of this apparent overstep. How many so far? Even the case on the woman’s DNA match wasn’t taken forward. 🤷🏼‍♂️

Government literally owns us

I shot my DNA all over the wall when I was in jail 💦 and now they have it for sure. it's just a matter of separating my swimmers from the 'melting pot' we had going.

Not me 😏

So the 5th amendment is violated.

MbuyiseniNdlozi Imagine South Africa with such a brilliant technology.

Really? And who will be in charge of these records?

MbuyiseniNdlozi America is a wild place

There's no way that should be legal. Definitely should be thrown out

Unpopular opinion… how definitive is the evidence?

That’s such a slippery slope for so many reasons. smh

GOOD 😇

kkkk,Father and police will be cheated.

So another rapist off the street?

you mean a baby is not a 'he' OR a 'she'? I mean you write: 'its father... '... is this the right way to put it?

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