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New York Creates “All Crimes DNA Database”
Loaded on May 15, 2013
published in Prison Legal News
May, 2013, page 45
New York has become the first state in the nation to establish a so-called “all crimes DNA database.”Like most states, New York already collects DNA samples from convicted felons. On March 19, 2012, however, Governor Andrew M. Cuomo signed into law a bill that permits the collection of DNA ...
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