Is your Sheriff’s Office trying to collect your DNA?
We are being notified by Members across the state that their Sheriff’s offices are either contacting them to come in and provide a DNA sample or, in some cases, even showing up at their doorstep to collect DNA!
Upon information and belief, the FDLE has sent letters or emails instructing all Sheriff agencies to collect DNA samples (i.e., “Project DNA”) from specific individuals listed on the Sex Offender Registry. It is unclear under what authority the FDLE can collect DNA from individuals whose offense dates are prior to the dates set forth in F.S. 943.325.
FAC has put in a public information request to the FDLE to ascertain this information.
In the meantime, some registrants have been told that providing DNA is voluntary. Other registrants have consulted with an attorney and been advised NOT to volunteer for the collection of DNA unless they come with a court order compelling them to provide the sample.
We will continue to update you as more information comes in.
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They should give people the option to submit DNA and get off registry cause dna is a real crime fighting tool the registry is keeping the talent off the street peeking around trying to bust you for unregistered vehicles that don’t even result in search warrants to see if missing kids are inside. The opertunity cost is catching new bad guys. If they called it the DNA registry for all convicted felons that way you rape, kill, steal, what ever they got you that definitely slow hard crime down then they could pass laws for like kissing in public (haven’t seen in 20 years lol) or cussing and fill the courts up with new money.
Yes the Pinellas County SPOT officer came to my home to collect DNA, then when I was not home because I work she said she will be back, I thought it was a residential check but she was stating that they never collected my DNA when I was arraigned and arrested in Broward County. She had this notion that my crime was committed in Pinellas. They did not tell me that is was voluntary, they said that it needs to be done. But since My crime was CP and I don’t have anything to hide, I wondered after giving it to them was it the right thing to do. I don’t have a lawyer but I was not intimidated because they never gave me a reason to feel intimidated. But now I wonder if they violated any rights I have left in this world. I have never been ordered to give up any DNA, just register. FAC did I do sometime wrong or did they?
Apparently they did.
Asking for a DNA sample is a search for evidence. I believe that this can only be performed AFTER a search warrant (or some other order of the court) has been issued (unless the person has previously consented to warrant-less searches as part of a plea agreement that has still not yet expired – in which case they can STILL refuse and simply violate their probation).
It is extremely difficult to see an instance when a warrant-less search could be performed due to an immediate exigency – it simply couldn’t be supported).
Lawyers, am I wrong?
I live in Hillsborough County. I just registered yesterday and was not asked for any DNA sample. Just putting it out there.
I’m in Colorado. I think if an officer showed up here trying to collect DNA from me, I’d probably give them the funniest look and then try to (as calmly as I could) explain to them that I gave DNA to them shortly after I was sentenced and it hasn’t changed.
Sorta like giving fingerprints every time I registered – which they thank god finally quit doing after they realized that was a colossal waste of time.
They can collect my DNA swabbing their own face. After they kiss my ass.
NICE!
Haha,,,I like this. I might have to use that line. 🙂
Well said!