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Bill: DNA Database Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Conservative Monarchist Alliance
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: October 3728
Description[?]:
| Maintaining DNA records of every single citizen is rather excessive. It represents an intrusion on civil liberties and privacy. It is also an extravagant waste of money. Anton Rietveld Chairman of the Conservative Monarchist Alliance |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's position towards the use of forensic DNA databases.
Old value:: All citizens' DNA is recorded.
Current: Only DNA from persons convicted of crime is recorded.
Proposed: DNA from persons accused or convicted for a crime is recorded.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 18:27:02, September 14, 2014 CET | From | ALL - Alternative List Lodamun | To | Debating the DNA Database Act |
| Message | If DNA databases represent an intrusion on civil liberties and privacy, why DNA from persons accused but not convicted should be recorded? If DNA databases represent an intrusion on civil liberties and privacy, why DNA from persons already paid their debt to society should be recorded? I believe that DNA database is a matter of all or nothing. The whole nation must be on database for the sake of efficient law enforcement, or no one must be on database if we believe DNA records represent an unbearable intrusion on civil liberties and privacy. The former is preferable: DNA database is a cost-efficient tool of investigations. It is not an extravagant waste of money. It saves budget. David Reinhardt, Social Policy spokesperson of the ALL - Alternative List Lodamun |
| Date | 19:44:39, September 14, 2014 CET | From | Conservative Monarchist Alliance | To | Debating the DNA Database Act |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, When it comes to the police storing DNA records, a balance needs to be struck between respecting the personal privacy of citizens and maintaining the rule of law upon which the liberty of all of us depends. Maintaining records of those convicted or accused of crimes is, we feel, a reasonable balance to strike, whereas maintaining records of every single citizen simply isn't. Ignatz Linden Social Affairs spokesman |
| Date | 06:53:36, September 15, 2014 CET | From |  Great National Republican Guard | To | Debating the DNA Database Act |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, We have discussed this topic before: http://classic.particracy.net/viewbill.php?billid=416972 Our stance remains the same. Unfortunately, it seems like the bill will pass this time. I am not surprised that the CMA is defending Lodamun's future criminals while only pretending to dislike the ones who already committed crimes. -- George Huddleson, GNRG Spokesman on Justice |
| Date | 13:48:26, September 15, 2014 CET | From | Conservative Monarchist Alliance | To | Debating the DNA Database Act |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, The problem with George Huddleson is that he wants to regard every citizen as a criminal! That is not a rational approach. Ignatz Linden Social Affairs spokesman |
| Date | 15:48:57, September 15, 2014 CET | From | Great National Republican Guard | To | Debating the DNA Database Act |
| Message | No, Mr. Speaker. Contrary to what the Linden is saying, I don't think that someone should have to be considered a criminal for their DNA to be recorded. There are benefits of having a DNA database that are unrelated to crime. State health and science institutions may study genetics to help with genetic problems like hereditary illnesses. Someone may trace their blood lineage. It will be easier to identify a body that has been severely damaged. Regarding crime, however, we have a point that the CMA repeatedly fails to address. If someone commits a crime for the first time, the case for that crime may take significantly long to be solved for the offender to be convicted. The offender may be imprisoned for some time, and having his DNA will be useless. If our correctional systems are effective, we would deter criminals from committing crime again. We see no point in recording a convict's DNA if we're not reporting everyone else's DNA as well. If someone commits a crime for the first time, our DNA database won't help to solve that crime's case. -- George Huddleson, GNRG Spokesman on Justice |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes | Total Seats: 378 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 221 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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