XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.education, alt.society.liberalism   
   XPost: alt.politics.democrats, alt.politics.usa.republican, talk.politics.guns   
   From: nikandr_bribed_clinton@freedyn.de   
      
   San Francisco police used DNA collected as part of a rape exam to   
   link a woman to a crime, possibly violating her constitutional   
   rights, the city’s district attorney alleged on Monday.   
      
   The department’s crime lab entered the DNA profiles of potentially   
   thousands of sexual assault victims over “many years” to a database   
   that is used to identify suspects, the San Francisco Chronicle   
   reported. District attorney Chesa Boudin, who said his office first   
   learned of the practice last week, told the newspaper such use of   
   victims’ DNA could violate the California’s Victims’ Bill of Rights   
   as well as constitutional laws related to unreasonable searches and   
   seizures.   
      
   Family and friends of Lauren Smith-Fields gather in  Bridgeport,   
   Connecticut, on 23 January.   
   Two Connecticut officers put on leave over handling of Black women’s   
   deaths   
      
   Read more   
   The woman’s DNA, which was collected in a rape exam as part of a   
   domestic violence and sexual abuse case several years ago, was used   
   to link her to a felony property crime in the city. Police   
   identified her in the crime based on evidence from the rape exam,   
   Boudin said.   
      
   The district attorney expressed concerns the practice would deter   
   victims of sexual assault, which is widely underreported in the US,   
   from coming forward.   
      
   “Law enforcement retaining and using DNA collected from survivors’   
   sexual assault exams to incriminate them hurts survivors,” Boudin   
   said on Twitter. “Public safety demands that we support sexual   
   assault survivors and end any practices that dissuade them from   
   coming forward.”   
      
   Bill Scott, the San Francisco police chief, told the Chronicle the   
   woman could have been identified in the property crime via DNA found   
   in a different database, rather than a profile collected from a rape   
   exam. Scott also said the department “would thoroughly review the   
   matter” and report back to him and the district attorney’s office.   
      
   State senator Scott Wiener, who represents the city, said lawmakers   
   were seeking to determine whether a change in state law was needed   
   to prevent the practice. “Getting a rape kit can be re-traumatizing.   
   Having that DNA placed in a database for future use creates yet   
   another incentive not to do it. It’s unacceptable,” he said on   
   Twitter.   
      
   https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/feb/14/san-francisco-   
   police-woman-crime-dna-rape-kit   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)