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Additional Background on Familial DNA From Slate

By Steve Hall

Georgetown Law prof Jeffrey Rosen wrote, "Genetic Surveillance for All," for Slate, in March 2009.  Here is a small excerpt from this must-read:Last March, at an FBI conference about genetic privacy, critics of familial searches made their case to the administrators of the national, state, and local DNA databases. Partly as a result, the FBI decided not to reconfigure the national CODIS software to allow familial searches. Nevertheless, current FBI policy allows individual states to decide whether to proceed with familial searches on their own. As a result, last April, California Attorney General Jerry Brown (who is considering a run for governor) began to allow familial DNA searching in the largest state database in the country...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on July 09, 2010 (boomark / email).