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Taking DNA Upon Arrest: Ineffective, Expensive, and Unconstitutional

Document, Published: 
Tuesday, February 4, 2014
SB 6314 would allow the collection of DNA samples from arrestees who have not yet been convicted of any crime. But this kind of DNA collection has not reduced crime in the states that have tried it. Analyzing the DNA of every felony arrestee is expensive, exacerbates crime lab backlogs, unfairly targets communities of color, and takes samples from large numbers of people who are unlikely to commit future crimes.
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Thursday, January 23, 2014
A few years after graduating from the University of Texas Law School in 1991, Dena Fredrickson took and passed the bar in Washington state.
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Tuesday, January 21, 2014
We’ve all heard the saying: the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over expecting a different result. Unfortunately, this approach has guided discipline policies in most Washington schools for decades. Misbehaving students routinely are suspended or expelled – despite overwhelming evidence that such practices don’t work.
News Release, Published: 
Monday, January 13, 2014
WA – Today, Representative Eileen Cody (D-West Seattle) is introducing HB 2148, the Reproductive Parity Act (RPA), for public hearing in the State House Health Care and Wellness Committee in Olympia. First introduced in 2012, the RPA would hold insurance companies accountable to women by requiring that they cover abortion care if they cover maternity care. Despite public support and passing the House twice, the RPA has been blocked twice in the Senate. Now, with some insurance companies failing to cover abortion in their plans through the new State Health Benefit Exchange, the need to pass the RPA is urgent in order to protect women’s privacy and freedom to make the healthcare decisions that are right for them and their families.

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