The Associated Press reports a panel of 11 Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals judges will hear oral arguments today in a case questioning the constitutionality of California’s DNA collection law. The law requires police to collect samples from every person arrested, the report states, noting the Ninth Circuit required attorneys on both sides of the California case to revise their arguments after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 to uphold Maryland's narrower DNA collection law. While “California Attorney General Kamala Harris and the Obama administration are both urging the court to uphold California's law as a constitutional and powerful law enforcement tool,” the ACLU argues it is not constitutional because not all those arrested are charged with crimes.
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