The San Francisco district attorney’s stunning claim that California crime labs are using DNA from sexual assault survivors to investigate unrelated crimes shocked prosecutors nationwide
February 16, 2022, 11:22 PMFILE - San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin poses outside his office in San Francisco, on Jan. 30, 2020. Boudin's stunning assertion that police crime labs statewide are using rape and sexual assault survivors' DNA without their consent to investigate unrelated crimes has shocked prosecutors nationwide as victims' groups decry a potential chilling effect on reporting. Boudin says he became aware of the"opaque practice" last week.
A spokesman declined to comment Wednesday on when the results of the investigation can be expected. He said Scott would likely address the allegations later Wednesday during a Police Commission meeting. Kreag said there could be other instances where someone’s DNA is collected for a specific purpose and then run through a database. For example, homeowners could submit their DNA in a burglary case to exclude them, but later that DNA could be linked to another crime.“Would the district attorney have come out so forcefully” in a case like that? Kreag asked. He said he has not heard of such a case involving a sexual assault victim’s DNA.
In Oakland, law enforcement uses sexual assault victim DNA only"in the context of the case for which the evidence was submitted, not to investigate other cases.”“As far as I know, it’s not a widespread practice,” said Ilse Knecht, director of policy and advocacy at the Joyful Heart Foundation, which assists survivors of sexual assault, domestic violence and child abuse.
“I think anybody can understand how survivors would be fearful of reporting after hearing this story,” Knecht said. The clash between his office and the police department intensified this month after the start of a trial against Terrance Stangel, a former police officer facing battery and assault charges for beating a man with a baton in 2019. It’s the first excessive-force case against an on-duty San Francisco police officer to go to trial.
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