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Bill: Forensic Databases Regulation Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Progressive Liberal Party
Status[?]: passed
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: December 2585
Description[?]:
| An Act granting law enforcement agencies the power to save genetic data about people convicted of certain crimes. 1.- The Federal Police Force shall be entitled to keep a forensic database with genetic and biometric data on people convicted of felony crimes. Access to the database shall be granted to the Cantonal police forces and, under a court order, other law enforcement agencies. 2.- The database shall only be used in criminal investigations by civilian police forces, and never by the military or secret agencies. 3.- The data saved in it is to be treated as maximum-confidentiality, and shall not, under any circumstances, be released to the public. 4.- Any individual may, through a letter directed to the Ministry of Interior, check whether the database contains any data on he or she. However, the individual is not entitled to know the contents of the data, nor to request its removal until after at least ten years after fulfilling his or her conviction. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's position towards the use of forensic DNA databases.
Old value:: No DNA is recorded.
Current: Only DNA from persons convicted of crime is recorded.
Proposed: Only DNA from persons convicted of crime is recorded.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 03:08:38, May 30, 2008 CET | From |  Progressive Liberal Party | To | Debating the Forensic Databases Regulation Act |
| Message | We the Progressive Liberals feel that the Cildanian justice system is a tad more sluggish than it should be when it comes to convicting criminals. While we believe in due process and all its guarantees, we think that establishing a database with DNA from people already convicted of felonies would speed up the process of convicting reincidents. Currently, no DNA can be officially recorded, and members of the scientific police can only compare samples from live cases. Thus, if a released ex-convict commits another crime, DNA cannot be used to link the new crimes with the old ones. Under this proposal, DNA from convicted felons would be recorded and saved until at least ten years after the conviction has been fulfilled. After that time, ex-convicts can request their DNA to be removed from the list. The database would be strictly limited to criminal investigations, and in particular its data would be considered near top-secret, which means that leaking or releasing it would be a crime in itself. |
| Date | 14:38:43, May 30, 2008 CET | From | Justice League of Cildania | To | Debating the Forensic Databases Regulation Act |
| Message | We are in favor of this. |
| Date | 13:52:29, May 31, 2008 CET | From | Progressive Liberal Party | To | Debating the Forensic Databases Regulation Act |
| Message | Reintroducing this proposal after the 2584 elections. We're waiting until New Year to put this to a vote, as we'd like as wide a consensus as we can gather (but wouldn't mind passing it the other way). |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 175 | |||||||
| no | Total Seats: 0 | |||||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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