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Bill: DNA Database for Criminals
Details
Status[?]: defeated
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: February 4037
Description[?]:
| The safety of the citizens of the Republic is paramount. Therefore, ignoring the usefulness of DNA in criminal investigations is illogical and has allowed many guilty killers, rapists and violent offender's to get away with their crimes. This must change. |
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: DNA from persons accused or convicted for a crime is recorded.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 17:14:03, May 30, 2016 CET | From |  Libertarian Socialist Confederation | To | Debating the DNA Database for Criminals |
| Message | Accused or convicted persons are also part of the Republic, is not their safety paramount too? That DNA isn't recorded in databases does not prevent the use of DNA in investigations, it only prevents its permanent storage. This is legal uncertainty in that it discourages the need to tie the prosecuted to the crime scene when their DNA is readily available. It also stamps convicted and - remember - accused for life, regardless if they weren't even convicted in the case of accused. |
| Date | 17:51:30, May 30, 2016 CET | From | Bluehawk | To | Debating the DNA Database for Criminals |
| Message | A DNA Database would have no negative affect of on a persons safety. It will make crime solving easier and will not be a published or public database. If police have a database to draw from they can solve cold cases easier as well as prove the innocence of the accused easier. |
| Date | 19:06:04, May 30, 2016 CET | From | RISE Movement | To | Debating the DNA Database for Criminals |
| Message | This is against the basic right to freedom. Just because a person is accused of a crime their DNA should not be recorded. Andrew Smith RISE Leader |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 57 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 564 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 129 |
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