The San Francisco Police Department is no longer using DNA from sexual assault survivors and other victims to investigate unrelated crimes, officials said.
is no longer using DNA from sexual assault survivors and other victims to investigate unrelated crimes, officials said Wednesday.
The department's crime lab stopped the practice shortly after receiving a complaint from the District Attorney's Office and formally changed its operating procedure Friday, Matt Dorsey, spokesman for San Francisco Police Chief Bill Scott, said Wednesday. District Attorney Chesa Boudin said last week he became aware of the"opaque practice" after prosecutors found a report among hundreds of pages of evidence in the case against a woman recently charged with a felony property crime. The papers referred to a DNA sample collected from the woman during a 2016 rape investigation.The charges against the woman have since been dropped.
The revelation that the San Francisco police crime lab used a sexual assault victim's DNA against her in an unrelated property crime case - and the allegation that it may be a common practice in California - prompted a national outcry among law enforcement, legal experts, lawmakers and advocates.
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