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Utah Senate approves SB277 allowing DNA collection at booking with privacy safeguards
Summary
The Senate passed Senate Bill 277 as amended to permit DNA collection at booking with processing limited until after preliminary hearings or waiver, an expungement process for those not convicted, and a requirement that analyses use FBI‑approved forensic markers; amendment No. 3 was adopted to narrow markers and add procedural safeguards.
Senators approved Senate Bill 277 on final passage after adopting an amendment intended to narrow how DNA is sampled and handled.
Sponsor Senator Adams told the Senate the bill "allows DNA to be collected upon booking," but that samples "will be processed and only can be processed upon a preliminary hearing or upon waiver of that preliminary hearing." He said the bill is designed to balance crime‑prevention with due process and noted the fiscal framework is intended to be revenue neutral: "Those that have been convicted will pay for this DNA sample" and the fee collected from convicted individuals would…
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