Re: City Challenged on Fingerprinting Protesters

2004-10-07 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 05:06 PM 10/6/04 +0100, Dave Howe wrote: >Major Variola (ret) wrote: >> There is a bill in this year's Ca election to require DNA sampling of >> anyone arrested. Not convicted of a felony, but arrested. [as in arrested for protesting] >Doesn't surprise me - the UK police collected a huge bun

Re: City Challenged on Fingerprinting Protesters

2004-10-06 Thread Dave Howe
Major Variola (ret) wrote: There is a bill in this year's Ca election to require DNA sampling of anyone arrested. Not convicted of a felony, but arrested. Doesn't surprise me - the UK police collected a huge bunch of fingerprints and dna samples "for elimination purposes" during one of the child

Re: City Challenged on Fingerprinting Protesters

2004-10-06 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 10:49 AM 10/5/04 -0400, R. A. Hettinga wrote: >Now it looks as if much of the fingerprinting may not have been legal in >the first place. According to lawyers at the New York Civil Liberties >Union, the city may have violated state law by routinely fingerprinting >arrested protesters. There is