{"id":1202,"date":"2009-10-26T07:59:51","date_gmt":"2009-10-26T07:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=1202"},"modified":"2009-10-26T07:59:51","modified_gmt":"2009-10-26T07:59:51","slug":"home-office-climbs-down-over-keeping-dna-records-on-innocent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=1202","title":{"rendered":"Home Office climbs down over keeping DNA records on innocent"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"img alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1148\" style=\"width:150px;\">\r\n\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/DNA-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"DNA\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>\r\n\t<div>DNA<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\n<p>The Home Office has announced that its plan to keep the DNA profiles of those arrested \u2013 but never convicted of a crime \u2013 for between six and 12 years depending on the seriousness of the offence has been dropped from the policing and crime bill that is going through parliament.<\/p>\n<p>A European court ruling in December found it was unlawful to keep the DNA details of 850,000 innocent people indefinitely on the national database.<br \/>\nGuardian article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/politics\/2009\/oct\/19\/innocent-dna-database\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DNA The Home Office has announced that its plan to keep the DNA profiles of those arrested \u2013 but never convicted of a crime \u2013 for between six and 12 years depending on the seriousness of the offence has been dropped from the policing and crime bill that is going through parliament. A European court [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1202"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1204,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1202\/revisions\/1204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}