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Probationers, Parolees And Dna Collection: Is This "Justice For All"?, Jessica K. Fender
Probationers, Parolees And Dna Collection: Is This "Justice For All"?, Jessica K. Fender
Seventh Circuit Review
In 1994, the DNA Identification Act permitted the government to establish a national database (CODIS) where it could collect DNA samples from those convicted of certain violent crimes. In the last few years, DNA collection statutes have been repeatedly expanded, to the point where some now require samples upon arrest. Not surprisingly, the federal DNA collection statute has been challenged repeatedly on Fourth Amendment grounds. In the Seventh Circuit, this issue was most recently addressed in United States v. Hook, a case in which a white-collar criminal on supervised release challenged the federal DNA collection statute. The court held …
Please, Let's Bury The Junk: The Codis Loci And The Revelation Of Private Information, David H. Kaye
Please, Let's Bury The Junk: The Codis Loci And The Revelation Of Private Information, David H. Kaye
Journal Articles
This Northwestern University Law Review Colloquy paper describes the four possible ways in which genetic loci could possess predictive or diagnostic value with regard to diseases and explains why these mechanisms have not led, and probably cannot lead, to useful screening tests with the Convicted Offender DNA Index System (CODIS) profiles in national, state, and local databases. It then considers the phenotypes and familial relationships that the CODIS STRs can be used to identify. The profiles carry limited information about an individual's race and familial relationships, and the article places the resulting privacy issues in perspective. Finally, the paper comments …