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Discarding DNA?
Prop 47 may also have an impact on the state’s DNA database. Anyone convicted of a felony has his or her DNA added to California’s DNA Databank. But what happens with the DNA information of the hundreds of thousands of Californians eligible to have old felonies reduced to misdemeanors?
By Madeleine Brand • • 1 min readProp 47 may also have an impact on the state’s DNA database. Anyone convicted of a felony has his or her DNA added to California’s DNA Databank. But what happens with the DNA information of the hundreds of thousands of Californians eligible to have old felonies reduced to misdemeanors? That’s the subject of a battle now playing out in the California court system.
