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Today, District Attorney Boudin announced that a jury voted not guilty on three counts and could not reach a verdict on a fourth count against Officer Terrance Stangel for his beating of Dacari Spiers with a baton, breaking numerous bones. The trial was believed to be the first trial of an on-duty officer for excessive force in San Francisco history.

Today, San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin and California State Senator Scott Wiener announced the introduction of Senate Bill 1228: Genetic Privacy for Sexual Assault Victims. Assemblymember Phil Ting (D-San Francisco) is the Principal Co-Author. The bill would prohibit law enforcement from retaining the DNA profile of sexual assault survivor in a searchable database that could be searched for reasons entirely unrelated to the sexual assault.