California: San Francisco police used rape victims’ DNA to try to ‘incriminate’ them, D.A. says

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San Francisco police used rape victims’ DNA to try to ‘incriminate’ them, D.A. says

14 February 2022

San Francisco’s district attorney said police used a database with DNA collected from victims of rape and sexual assault to connect some of them to crimes. Dist. Atty. Chesa Boudin said Monday that the San Francisco Police Department crime lab had been using the database to “attempt to subsequently incriminate” victims of rape and sexual assault in connection with unrelated cases, a practice he called “legally and ethically wrong.” The district attorney called for an immediate end to the alleged practice, committed to working with police to address the allegations and urged changes to local and state laws, his office ...

San Francisco police used rape victims' DNA to try to 'incriminate' them, D.A. says

A database with DNA collected from victims of rape and sexual assault was searched to identify suspects in crimes, Dist. Atty. Chesa Boudin said.

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Police Search Rape Kit DNA To See if Victims Are Also Criminals

15 February 2022

California officials are calling for an end to rape kit testing outside of rape investigations. San Francisco's district attorney said Monday that DNA collected from alleged rape victims—evidence known as a rape kit—has been used to check if they are also criminals. District Attorney Chesa Boudin accused the city's police crime lab of searching a database that includes DNA from sexual assault investigations in "attempts to identify crime suspects." "I am disturbed that victims who have the courage to undergo an invasive examination to help identify their perpetrators are being treated like criminals rather than supported as crime victims," said ...

Police Search Rape Kit DNA To See if Victims Are Also Criminals

California officials are calling for an end to rape kit testing outside of rape investigations. San Francisco's district attorney said...

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San Francisco Cops Are Running Rape Victims' DNA Through Criminal Databases Because What Even The Fuck

24 February 2022

There are things people expect the government to do. And then there are the things the government actually does. The government assumes many people are comfortable with things it does that are technically legal, but certainly not how the average government user expects the system to behave. Some of this can be seen in the Third Party Doctrine, which says people who knowingly share information with third parties also willingly share it with the government. But very few citizens are actually cool with this extended sharing, no matter what the Supreme Court-created doctrine says. This tension between people's actual expectations ...

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