District attorneys in San Mateo, Santa Clara and Sacramento counties also swatted down the suggestion, as did representatives from San Diego police, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department crime lab and others. In Oakland, law enforcement uses sexual assault victim DNA only "in the cont...
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Kellylou Densmore, director of the city's Office of Sexual Harassment and Assault Response and Prevention, or SHARP, echoed the DA's disapproval of using DNA from rape kits for anything other than a sexual assault investigation. She alluded to that fact that the DA's...
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“Being able to determine where defendants have been and placing them at the scene of a crime is huge in solving our cases,” explained Brown. “We also developed a forensic lab in our office where we can do social media tracking, and pinpoint cellphone usage based upon cellular triangulatio...
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