New House Bill to track sexual assault DNA testing kits
House Bill 83 has been introduced in the Florida Legislature.
The bill would establish a state-wide information system to track and manage, ” the location, lab submission status, testing, completion, and storage of each kit required to be submitted for testing” and give the victim access to that status and whether the DNA collected from their assault kit matched anyone in the DNA database.
The bill also extends the statute of limitations for “a prosecution for a first or second degree felony violation of s. 794.011, if the victim is 16 years of age or older at the time of the offense.” to 15 years.
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I thought they’d this already its be what 23 years since they started taking dna and finally someone has a brilliant idea using old technology? This should be nation wide and include all criminals. Gang members, trafficking, burglars, ect. you do crime they should be able to apprehend you in 2 weeks problem is this would cut the fat out the system.
be nice to see certain ex lawmakers and those who had child porn on computer(Citrus County resident) be prosecuted under the same laws they help be made, then I would say the Judical system is not broken and fair.
I’m all for DNA testing, but seriously the wording of the bill needs to fully reflect the contents of the bill. This is “added pork” that pisses me off so much about the way many dirty politicians push new laws into place.
I would like to introduce a bill that reads:
“Protect children act of 2019” with a millions words with a statement somewhere reading something akin to: “Any person who violates the United States constitution shall lose their rights afforded to the individual under the constitution and imprisoned for no less than 100 years with this law unmodifiable at any point hereafter.”
Hey, it’s to protect the children (from dirty politicians and lawmakers).