[privacy] DNA Deceit

["Richard M. Smith" <rms () computerbytesman com>]

http://www.capecodvoice.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=169
&Itemid=127

 

The DNA samples were destroyed, O'Keefe promised.
They were not, says the state crime lab.

 

June 2008 | Rose Connors

In February, 2005, District Attorney Michael O'Keefe was asked what would
become of DNA collected in the now-infamous Truro sweep.

"It will be destroyed," he promised.

It wasn't, says the state's crime lab where the samples were sent.

On November 21, 2006, O'Keefe's office issued a press release informing
"anyone who voluntarily gave a DNA sample" during "the so-called DNA Sweep"
that it could be retrieved "by calling the District Attorney's office . and
indicating whether you would like to come in or have it mailed to a
particular address."

The clear implication was that the DA's office had physical custody of the
specimens. It didn't, the state lab reported a year later.

The DA's press release went on to state that samples unclaimed after
December 20, 2006, "will be destroyed at an appropriate facility."

They weren't, the lab disclosed.

This shocking discrepancy has emerged only after John Reinstein, an attorney
at the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, representing one
Truro man who gave his DNA, sent written inquiries to O'Keefe and the state
crime lab.

O'Keefe never answered. 

 

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