At 10:49 AM 10/5/04 -0400, R. A. Hettinga wrote: >Now it looks as if much of the fingerprinting may not have been legal in >the first place. According to lawyers at the New York Civil Liberties >Union, the city may have violated state law by routinely fingerprinting
>arrested protesters. There is a bill in this year's Ca election to require DNA sampling of anyone arrested. Not convicted of a felony, but arrested.