Daren Bakst, John Locke Foundation director of legal and regulatory services, outlines his concerns about North Carolina’s new law requiring law enforcement agencies to collect DNA samples from all people arrested on certain felony charges. Bakst offered these comments during an interview for Carolina Journal Radio (Program No. 376).
JLF’s Daren Bakst details problems linked to new N.C. DNA collection law
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