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February 27, 2023
Many people with DNA in the NYPD database have not been convicted of a crime or even arrested.
March 30, 2022
The New York City Police Department surreptitiously took DNA samples from more than 30,000 people and kept them in a database, a lawsuit from the Legal
March 23, 2022
(NEW YORK) -- A federal lawsuit accuses the New York Police Department of surreptitiously taking DNA samples without obtaining warrants and storing the genetic
March 23, 2022
(NEW YORK) — A federal lawsuit accuses the New York Police Department of surreptitiously taking DNA samples without obtaining warrants and storing the genetic material in perpetuity in an illegal and unregulated database. The database turns thousands of people, primarily Black and Latino people, into […]
March 23, 2022
Tim Drivas Photography/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- A federal lawsuit accuses the New York Police Department of surreptitiously taking DNA samples without obtaining warrants and storing the genetic material in perpetuity in an illegal and unregulated database. The database turns thousands of people, primarily Black and Latino people, into "permanent criminal suspects," according to the lawsuit filed Monday in federal court in Manhattan. Plaintiff Shakira Leslie was one of the nearly 32,00...
March 22, 2022
Lawyers hope to end the practice and get DNA profiles expunged.
March 22, 2022
The Legal Aid Society has filed a federal lawsuit accusing the New York Police Department of surreptitiously collecting genetic material from thousands of New...
March 22, 2022
โThousands of New Yorkers, most of whom are Black and brown, and many of whom have never been convicted of any crime, are illegally in the cityโs rogue DNA database, which treats people as suspects in every crime involving DNA,โ said Desgranges.
March 22, 2022
A database used by the New York Police Department violates state law and the Constitution, the Legal Aid Society contends in a lawsuit.
March 22, 2022
The police routinely offer people who are being questioned about a crime a beverage, a cigarette or chewing gum and then collect DNA, the suit alleges.