CA Ballot Tests the Popularity of DNA Requirements
The lowest step on the social ladder by some estimates is the one held by those suspected of or convicted of committing a crime. This assertion is being tested by a California ballot initiative Proposition 69. The proposition if passes by voters on November 2, 2004, would make it law that DNA be collected from everyone arrested in that state on suspicion of committing a felony starting in 2009.
Privacy rights at center of DNA measure debate, Contra Costa Times, October 20, 2004
