A woman claims San Francisco police arrested her for theft based on DNA sample she had submitted to them as evidence years earlier for a rape investigation.
SAN FRANCISCO -- Years after a San Francisco woman submitted a rape kit after she was sexually assaulted, her DNA was used to charge her with a crime.
Correspondent Janet Shamlian asked,"If you had known your DNA was going into a general database, would you have been more hesitant about submitting it as part of a sexual assault?"The charges were dropped after the district attorney learned how the evidence was obtained.on Doe's behalf against the City and County of San Francisco and some police department employees, claiming use of her DNA was unlawful search-and-seizure.
"It absolutely raises some deep concerns," said Jen King, a technology and privacy expert at Stanford University."Here's a point where someone was at their most vulnerable, gave up their DNA for criminal investigation, for justice, and then had it exploited by the SFPD." "I'm not an animal; I don't want no specimen of me collected in any way," Doe said."I'm not no one's pet. I'm my own person. I belong to one person only, and that's God."
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