Previous Politech message: http://www.politechbot.com/p-04293.html --- Subject: AW: Louisiana police force all townspeople to give DNA samples Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 16:48:11 +0100 From: "Guddat, Tariq Habib" <TGuddat@konica-europe.de> To: <declanat_private> Dear Declan, enjoying your mailing list for quite some time now, let me reaply something in regard to the below. In Germany for many years it has become a standard procedure with capital crimes to more ore less force the inhabitans of a community or even region to undergo DNA-testing. At first the proesecutors office will launch a public request via newspaper that all males (or females) may do their DNA at auch and such location - without being forced, of course (leaving the public pressure aside, especially in smaller locations ...). However, the concerned local police forces (being the executive branch) after some time will personally contact all males/femals, who refused the DNA on whatever grounds, and "invite" them for testing. If such people still refuse, they will launch an exhausting check/investigation on such person. All this is covered by federal law. Of course the law also says that all such created databases should be completely erased after the criminal procedure has been closed. However, and what happens in reality is another question, especially in regard to politicians wish to create a nationwide database of such DNA-testing, which is - at least unto now - still not possible under existing law - thank God! Need to know more or some examples from the last years, let me know. With best regards, Tariq ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Like Politech? Make a donation here: http://www.politechbot.com/donate/ Recent CNET News.com articles: http://news.search.com/search?q=declan -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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