{"id":4873,"date":"2008-11-16T18:14:38","date_gmt":"2008-11-16T17:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=4873"},"modified":"2008-11-16T18:14:38","modified_gmt":"2008-11-16T17:14:38","slug":"aclu-challenges-dna-databank-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/surveillance-big-brother\/aclu-challenges-dna-databank-expansion\/","title":{"rendered":"ACLU Challenges DNA Databank Expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Civil Liberties Group Concerned Over Privacy Issues <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>MONTPELIER, Vt. &#8212; <\/strong>A proposal to expand the state&#8217;s DNA database is being questioned by a civil liberties group.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Under the Senate Judiciary Committee&#8217;s plan, the state would start collecting genetic samples from people arraigned on felony crimes. The current law only requires DNA samples from people convicted of felonies.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers said the change will help protect Vermonters from violent criminals.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But Allen Gilbert, the head of the Vermont American Civil Liberties Union, said that the proposal could violate a person&#8217;s right to privacy and put innocent people under surveillance.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He said he is concerned about what happens to the DNA if a person is found not guilty or convicted of a misdemeanor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Civil Liberties Group Concerned Over Privacy Issues MONTPELIER, Vt. &#8212; A proposal to expand the state&#8217;s DNA database is being questioned by a civil liberties group. \u00a0 Under the Senate Judiciary Committee&#8217;s plan, the state would start collecting genetic samples from people arraigned on felony crimes. The current law only requires DNA samples from people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1614],"tags":[45],"class_list":{"0":"post-4873","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-surveillance-big-brother","7":"tag-database-state"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}