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Gov. praises Senate passage of DNA databank expansion

By Betty Little

 
Posted by Betty Little [1] on Wednesday, February 1st, 2012
  • Crime [2]

February 1, 2012


By CHRIS MORRIS - Staff Writer (cmorris@adirondackdailyenterprise.com [3]) , Adirondack Daily Enterprise


The state Senate has emphatically passed legislation that would expand New York's criminal DNA database.


Senators voted 50-10 on Tuesday to pass the DNA Databank Expansion Bill, which would, if signed into law, require people convicted of all crimes - including misdemeanors - to submit DNA samples to the state's DNA databank. Currently, only someone convicted of a felony, or one of 36 specific misdemeanor charges, is required to submit a DNA sample.


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