A San Francisco woman is taking legal action against the city after police used her DNA from a sexual assault examination to arrest her for an unrelated crime. San Francisco, California - A San Francisco woman has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the city after her DNA from a sexual assault examination was used by police five years later to arrest her in connection with an unrelated property crime , spurring a backlash and attempts to ban the practice. Former San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin said his office found that the local police had been using sexual assault victims' DNA t connect them to crimes. However, according to the lawsuit, San Francisco police kept her DNA in a database until at least February 2022 and "tested it in hundreds, if not thousands of cases" by comparing it with DNA evidence collected from crime scenes. That month, then-District Attorney Chesa Boudin announced his office had found that the San Francisco Police Department crime lab had been using the database of victims' DNA to connect some of them to crimes.

Source: The Guardian September 14, 2022 20:41 UTC