NEWPORT — At 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 11, the Richards Free Library will hold a presentation on Do You Know Where Your DNA Is? The genetic future is now.
It is very likely that some commercial, medical research or governmental entity has either your DNA sample or your genetic information. And you don’t know it and may not even know that they have collected and stored it.
Do You Know Where Your DNA Is? takes you through the current state of forensic DNA technology, genetic genealogy, familial searching and wrongful convictions based on post-conviction DNA testing among the many and varied uses of genetic information. So…come and find out why you need to be careful to whom you are related genetically.
The presenter, Albert E. (Buzz) Scherr, is a professor of law at UNH Franklin Pierce School of Law in Concord, and Chair of its International Criminal Law and Justice program. As a lawyer, he has been litigating forensic DNA issues in state and federal courts for 25 years and continues to advocate for reforms in the use of forensic DNA evidence in the New Hampshire legislature and elsewhere.
Professor Scherr has lectured to judges, attorneys, educators and others regionally and nationally on a variety of genetics, law and privacy issues and consults regularly with prosecutors and defense lawyers.
He is the author of the newest amendment to the New Hampshire Constitution which grants those in New Hampshire a constitutional right to information privacy and has worked closely with allies to move forward privacy legislation in the New Hampshire legislature.
For more information, please contact Andrea Thorpe, Director of the Richards Free Library, at 863-3430 or [email protected]
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