Terri Rosenblatt, Supervising Attorney of the DNA Unit at The Legal Aid Society, joined with New York State Senator Brad Hoylman and Assembly Member Tremaine Wright on an Op-Ed in the New York Daily News calling on Albany to enact legislation next session that would eliminate the City’s unregulated DNA databank, which has garnered criticism for infringing on New Yorkers’ Constitutional rights.

“Our legislation will end the unsanctioned practice of DNA indexing from children and from people who haven’t been convicted of crimes,” writes Rosenblatt. “At the same time, it will maintain the effectiveness of DNA indexing and allow local DNA laboratories, like New York City’s, to focus on the important job of testing crime scene evidence. It’s time to end New York City’s rogue DNA index once and for all.”