The National Register of Genetic Data was approved by a comfortable margin in the Lower House today, after a bill designed to tackle sex crimes was passed almost unaminously by deputies.
The project was voted in with 211 members in favour, and only one deputy voting against.
After three hours of debate, in which declarations from both benches were limited as a result of a previous agreement between the two blocs, the project sent through 10 months ago by the Senate was given the green light.
Head of the NGO AVIVI that assists rape victims María Elena Leuzzi praised the project as a “preventative initiative” that allows women to register a DNA sample of sex offenders prompting their detention.
The registy will work under the scope of the Justice and Human Rights Ministry headed by Julio Alak and sets a database with genetic information of sex offenders that will “only serve to facilitate the clarification of the crimes that are put under judicial investigation.”
The registry will provide information of genetic data, updated photographs and home address outlines of people who have been convicted for sex abuse. Only judges and attorneys will have access to the information with data considered “sensitive” and of “reserved nature.”
Source:Buenos Aires Herald