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Supervisors accept amendments to DNA database ordinance after DA disclosure; amendments approved unanimously
Summary
Supervisor Ronan introduced an ordinance to restrict storage and use of victim DNA profiles in non-CODIS databases. Amendments narrowing scope and clarifying retention and purge requirements were accepted unanimously.
The Board considered legislation (Item 17) that would amend the Administrative Code to prohibit the San Francisco Police Department and other city departments from uploading or storing victim DNA profiles in non‑CODIS DNA databases for investigative use and to limit retention of evidentiary DNA profiles in non‑CODIS databases to no longer than 60 days.
Supervisor Ronan said the ordinance was prompted by a District Attorney disclosure that a victim's DNA profile from a sexual-assault evidence kit submitted six years earlier had been used in an unrelated…
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