{"id":924,"date":"2010-01-26T21:07:59","date_gmt":"2010-01-27T02:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/?p=924"},"modified":"2016-06-06T20:09:25","modified_gmt":"2016-06-07T01:09:25","slug":"georgia-lawmaker-tries-to-expand-dna-database","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/law-enforcement\/georgia-lawmaker-tries-to-expand-dna-database\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgia Lawmaker Wants to Expand the State&#8217;s DNA Database"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Currently there are 21 states that require a DNA sample from any person who is arrested for a felony.<\/p>\n<p>The state of Georgia currently requires a DNA sample only from people who are convicted of a felony, not those arrested on felony charges. However, all of that could change soon.<\/p>\n<p>Georgia State Representative Rob Teihet is seeking to expand the state&#8217;s DNA database by pushing for a law that would mandate DNA testing for all people who are arrested for a felony.<\/p>\n<p>Some Georgia lawmakers believe that expanding the DNA database would help prevent repeat felony offenses.<\/p>\n<p>It currently takes a crime lab six months to compare and match DNA samples from the database. Georgia already has a backlog of DNA matching cases that need worked by the state&#8217;s crime technicians.<\/p>\n<p>Representative Teilhet is currently a candidate for Georgia Attorney General. At a recent news conference he stated that around 130 crimes could have been stopped in 3 states if DNA had been collected after the arrest.<\/p>\n<p>Representative Teilhet plans to introduce the expanded DNA collection legislation this week.<\/p>\n<p>[ Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wrdw.com\/politics\/headlines\/82654727.html\">WRDW.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Currently there are 21 states that require a DNA sample from any person who is arrested for a felony. The state of Georgia currently requires a DNA sample only from people who are convicted of a felony, not those arrested on felony charges. However, all of that could change soon. Georgia State Representative Rob Teihet [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/law-enforcement\/georgia-lawmaker-tries-to-expand-dna-database\/\">Read More&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> from Georgia Lawmaker Wants to Expand the State&#8217;s DNA Database<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law-enforcement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=924"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5934,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924\/revisions\/5934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}