Data Privacy,
Criminal,
Constitutional Law
Mar. 17, 2022
California’s feeble privacy right is cold comfort
San Francisco’s District Attorney Chesa Boudin recently revealed that the city’s police department has a practice of saving DNA from crime victims in a database, which can be used to identify them as suspects in unrelated crimes. Morally wrong as it may be, courts are unlikely to find that this practice violates our anemic state constitutional privacy right.
San Francisco's District Attorney Chesa Boudin recently revealed that the city's police department has a practice of saving DNA from crime victims in a database, which can be used to identify them as suspects in unrelated crimes. Boudin charged that this practice violates California's constitutional privacy guarantee. Morally wrong as it may be, courts are unlikely to find that this practice violates our anemic state constitutional privacy right.
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