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Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2020, 01:34:38 AM CST
Subject: NEW TX LAWS IN 2021 CAN INCREASE NUMBER OF CRIME SUSPECTS WHOSE DNA IS PERMANENTLY IN DPS DATA BASE
www.dps.texas.gov/CrimeLaboratory/CODIS/index.htm
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December 15, 2020
Dear State Representative Sheryl Cole, State Senator Sarah Eckhardt, Texas Speaker of the House Dennis Bonnen, Texas Lt. Governor Dan Patrick, and Texas Governor Greg Abbott,
The above link can guide each of you very honorable State of Texas officials to a webpage (below) at the official website of the Texas Department of Public Safety state law-enforcement agency headquarters here in Austin: TxDPS - Statewide CODIS DNA Database Program, Overview (texas.gov)
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That DPS website offers very helpful and pertinent factual information for those of us who would love to see a significant increase the percentage of all current Texan residents --- and of all current visitors to Texas residing in this state for more than one month --- whose DNA and fingerprints are permanently on file in the computer records at the DPS and other public law-enforcement agencies in Texas.
It is my strongly held belief that the greater the percentage of all crime suspects in Texas whose DNA information is permanently stored in the computer data bases of law-enforcement agencies in Texas, the greater the deterrence of future crime activities in this state.
If police detectives throughout Texas have immediate access to significantly more extensive DNA records in their law-enforcement-agency's computer data base, this can serve as a very powerful warning to crime-prone Texans.
If they attempt to commit a crime in the future, immediate access to their own DNA records by law-enforcement agencies throughout Texas dramatically increases their own chances of getting quickly arrested, charged with a crime, convicted of that crime, and incarcerated.
At present, state law in Texas does NOT require that a person charged with a misdemeanor crime---regardless of whether that crime involves theft or an act of violence---must provide his DNA to a law-enforcement agency in Texas.
I am very hopeful that the Texas Legislature that convenes in January 2021 will add any and all misdemeanor crimes to the categories of crimes for which each individual arrested and charged with that crime is legally required to provide a DNA sample to a government law-enforcement agency with jurisdiction.
Another current problem with our state penal code relating to DNA records:
State law in Texas currently requires law-enforcement agencies to permanently delete from their computer data base the DNA records for individuals who were not convicted in a court of law of a cited felony charge they had been arrested for.
Many Texans, myself among them, would love to see a revision to state law in January 2021 that denies any and all persons formally accused of any felony crime in Texas----regardless of whether they are later convicted of that crime---of the legal "right" to have their personal DNA information permanently deleted from the computer records of the Texas DPS and other public law-enforcement agencies in Texas.
Thank you for giving consideration to these two DNA-related public-policy recommendations from myself. I hope to hear from you soon.
Sincerely and Best Wishes,
John Kevin McMillan, a law-abiding, gainfully-employed, permanently-drinking-alcohol-free (ever since 1990), English-Scottish-German-ancestry Anglo American adult citizen and current male constituent of State Rep. Sheryl Cole and State Senator Sarah Eckhardt.
I am also the founder and only approved current member of the crime-deterrence-minded and lawfully non-Christian "Progressive Prohibitionist Religion" --- an "Honor Society" new religion that has very stringent membership-eligibility requirements.
My home address ever since June 21, 2019: Pebble Creek Apartments (a Belco Equities-affiliated complex), 8805 North Plaza Drive, Bldg. 17, Apt. 2418, Austin, TX 78753.
My home phone: (512) 342-2295.
My cell phone: (512) 993-7305.
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