California DNA Collection Law Does Not Violate 4th Amendment, Judge Rules

Mealey's (June 25, 2018, 4:52 PM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — A long-running constitutional challenge to a California law permitting the collection of DNA samples from certain arrestees came to an end June 22, when a California federal judge followed recent state and federal rulings finding such laws not in violation of the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution when conducted with probable cause (Elizabeth Aida Haskell, et al. v. Edmund G. Brown, et al., No. 3:09-cv-04779, N.D. Calif., 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 105051)....