By City News Service Feb 19, 2021 SANTA ANA (CNS) - Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer today said a lawsuit challenging a DNA database overseen by his office was “outrageous'' and “absurd.'' UC Irvine Law School professors and students filed the suit Tuesday in Orange County Superior Court against the county and Spitzer's office, seeking an injunction to prevent the D.A.'s office from “coercing often indigent persons charged with misdemeanors'' into contributing their genetic material into its DNA database. “The OCDA DNA collection program has solved crimes that would have never been solved,'' Spitzer said. “Participation in this program is completely voluntary, is in no way coercive, and involves multiple layers of safeguards to ensure absolute voluntary participation.''