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FBI May Collect Juveniles’ DNA

HeadlineNov 18, 2003

DNA profiles from hundreds of thousands of juvenile offenders and adults arrested but not convicted of crimes could be added to the FBI’s national database under a proposed law moving through Congress. This according to USA Today. Proponents, including the Bush administration, say that expanding the number of profiles in the database would greatly increase the number of crimes solved. But critics say that taking a person’s DNA before he is even convicted removes the “presumption of innocence.”

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