Kathleen just brought me up to speed on California’s Prop 69 (which isn’t at ALL about what you’d think based on the number) which was approved back in 2004, fully implemented in 2009, and is now being challenged in the courts.
What it puts forward is the following: that anyone who is arrested on a felony charge is required to provide a DNA sample so it can be cross matched against DNA taken from other crimes and see if there’s a hit. (There are similar laws on the books in many other states.) There seems little doubt that it will wind up in the Supreme Court. And I honestly don’t know how I feel about it.
Originally published November 8, 1996, in Comics Buyer’s Guide #1199
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