Samples would be taken from anyone arrested or detained by feds
By Ellen Nakashima and Spencer Hsu
The U.S. government will soon begin collecting DNA samples from all citizens arrested in connection with any federal crime and from many immigrants detained by federal authorities, adding genetic identifiers from more than 1 million individuals a year to the swiftly growing federal law enforcement DNA database.
The policy will substantially expand the current practice of routinely collecting DNA samples from only those convicted of federal crimes, and it will build on a growing policy among states to collect DNA from many people who are arrested. Thirteen states do so now and turn their data over to the federal government.
The initiative, to be published as a proposed rule in the Federal Register in coming days, reflects a congressional directive that DNA from arrestees be collected to help catch a range of domestic criminals. But it also requires, for the first time, the collection of DNA samples from people other than U.S. citizens and legal permanent residents who are detained by U.S. authorities.
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Not convicted of a federal crime but arrested. This means someone protesting on federal land can have DNA taken and stored if arrested.
Also if you get caught by the feds crossing the borders means they are going to take samples too...dang....I see alot of people getting set up by this and have no way of proving it.
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