When the NYPD Secretly Collects Your DNA

The Brian Lehrer Show | Mar 22, 2022

Philip Desgranges, supervising attorney with the Criminal Defense Practice’s Special Litigation Unit for the Legal Aid Society and Dave Pollock, staff attorney with The Legal Aid Society's DNA unit talk about the class-action lawsuit filed by the Legal Aid Society that alleges the NYPD illegally collects DNA to store in a database from people who are suspects.

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