A woman sues San Francisco for using her sexual assault investigation DNA, “Succession” sweeps the Emmys, and people have to stop leaving marmalade sandwiches for the Queen.
, BuzzFeed News’ morning newsletter dedicated to making sense of this chaotic world we live in. Join the clubShe provided DNA for her sexual assault investigation. Then it was used to charge her for a crime.after its police department used her DNA samples from a sexual assault case back in 2016 to charge her with an unrelated property theft five years later.
The lawsuit, filed in federal court on Monday, states that in 2016 the woman provided a DNA sample to the San Francisco Police Department after she reported being sexually assaulted. Across a span of more than six years,"the crime lab routinely ran crime scene evidence through this database that included the Plaintiff’s DNA without ever attempting to get her consent or anyone else’s consent,” the lawsuit’s complaint says.
In December 2021, the police department used an alleged match between crime scene evidence and DNA that the woman had provided to arrest her on allegations of burglary, per the lawsuit. The property theft charge was ultimately dropped after then–district attorney Chesa Boudin denounced the practice as a
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