TAKE ACTION NOW ! CONTACT YOUR GEORGIA REPRESETATIVE TODAY

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Simply enter your zip code in the box on the right of this page where it says “Find Your Officials”, to identify your State Legislators. Congress has already passed a federal law for arrestee testing, so communication with your federal representatives in congress is unnecessary. Please feel free to use the following text, with or without your own revisions, when communicating with your State Legislators:

PASS "Johnia Berry Act "

GA House Bill 1033

GEORGIA NEEDS THE DNA ARRESTEE LEGISLATION

Please do not wait another year to pass a law to require DNA to be taken at the same time as fingerprints for felony arrests! People in police custody have no right to conceal their identity, and we have every right to know if they have been involved in other crimes.

We have a right to be safe on our own streets. Every year we wait to pass this law, we expose everyone in our communities to the possibility that a serial criminal will be unwittingly released by police and allowed to commit more crimes.

We cannot blame law enforcement if their hands are tied by laws that do more to protect criminals, than they do to protect the rest of the public. Please do not let another person be needlessly victimized by our failure to treat DNA like a fingerprint.

Federal laws already require that states must provide a manner of expunge for a person who is arrested but not convicted of a crime.

This is a fair balance that protects both the public and the rights of the accused. Please pass DNA Arrest laws now!

Sincerely,

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