{"id":1817,"date":"2005-10-02T14:32:59","date_gmt":"2005-10-02T14:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=1817"},"modified":"2005-10-02T14:32:59","modified_gmt":"2005-10-02T14:32:59","slug":"your_dna_or_els","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=1817","title":{"rendered":"Your DNA or Else! (Feingold &#038; Kohl are on this Senate Comittee)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/2061-10796_3-5886598.html?part=rss&#038;tag=5886598&#038;subj=news\">Declan McCullagh<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>The Violence Against Women Act may be about to do violence to Americans&#8217; right to privacy.<br \/>\nA U.S. Senate committee (Judiciary, which includes both Wisconsin Senators: <a href=\"http:\/\/feingold.senate.gov\/contact.html\">Russ Feingold<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/kohl.senate.gov\/gen_contact.html\">Herb Kohl<\/a> &#8211; contact them on this issue!) has adopted an amendment to the VAWA legislation that would add the DNA of anyone detained by the cops to a federal DNA database called &#8220;CODIS.&#8221;<br \/>\nNote that it doesn&#8217;t require that you&#8217;re convicted of a crime or even formally arrested on suspicion of committing one. Mere detention &#8212; might a routine traffic stop eventually qualify? &#8212; will be sufficient for CODISification. (Current law only authorizes blood or saliva swabs and entry into CODIS for people convicted of a crime.)<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Senator Kohl is up for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/archives\/003035.php\">re-election in 2006<\/a>.  I think Kathleen Falk would make an excellent candidate!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Declan McCullagh: The Violence Against Women Act may be about to do violence to Americans&#8217; right to privacy. A U.S. Senate committee (Judiciary, which includes both Wisconsin Senators: Russ Feingold and Herb Kohl &#8211; contact them on this issue!) has adopted an amendment to the VAWA legislation that would add the DNA of anyone detained [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1817"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}