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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
PR- 093-12
March 14, 2012

STATEMENT OF MAYOR MICHAEL R. BLOOMBERG ON THE AGREEMENT TO EXPAND THE STATE’S DNA DATABANK

“Today, the State Legislature answered Governor Cuomo’s clarion call to modernize the State’s criminal justice laws by expanding DNA collection to more crimes. DNA is today’s equivalent to conventional fingerprints, and prosecutors understand how essential DNA can be to solving crimes – just as defense attorneys understand how essential it is to exonerating the innocent and preventing wrongful convictions. Six years ago I helped lead the charge for a new State law that expanded DNA collection – and we strongly supported the Governor's efforts to expand the law further. Thanks to the hard work of Governor Andrew Cuomo, Majority Leader Dean Skelos, Speaker Shelly Silver, Senator Steve Saland, Senator Jeff Klein and Assemblyman Joe Lentol, New York will now have one of the strongest DNA laws in the country – and we will be safer for it.”







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