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Spit and Acquit Modified For DNA Deletion

What’s more amusing than a process termed as “Spit and Acquit”? The name of the person administering it today.

Let’s go to my neighbor Orange County, California. The publication Voice of OC explains what “Spit and Acquit” is:

“The DNA collection program, colloquially known as Spit and Acquit, was started by former District Attorney Tony Rackauckus in 2007 and offered misdemeanor defendants a choice – face charges, or pay a small fee and submit your DNA to a countywide database.”

As far as I can tell, the database was used lawfully. A January 2025 report indicated that the database was used over 12,000 times to generate “hits or leads.” Yes, leads. As in “investigative leads.” Not arrest warrants. So no problem there.

But UCI criminology professor emeritus William Thompson was concerned about the potential for unconstitutional arrests, and initiated a lawsuit that was just settled.

“Now, anyone whose DNA was collected or is collected in the future will automatically have their DNA expunged after 15 years for a slate of misdemeanors, including things like altering a license plate, drinking alcohol in public and disobeying direction at a stoplight.

“Other people who commit crimes that make them ineligible for automatic deletion can petition to have their DNA profile removed after 25 years provided they have not reoffended in some other way.”

However, original District Attorney Rackauckus is long gone. This isn’t the U.S. Senate, after all. His replacement, elected in 2018, is…

…drumroll…

Todd Spitzer.

Nano Bots: DNA On The Move

DNA on the move is real: just not in the way that I joked about in my video earlier this morning.

No, you can’t capture a DNA sample from a non-stationary person.

Nano bots in 2010

But the DNA itself can move to perform teeny tiny tasks, including both technological and medical ones.

“[S]cientists have been developing DNA nanomachines, from tiny tweezers to two-legged “walkers” that can step to the left or right. Recent molecular robot research has gone a step further, aiming to get DNA molecules to organize themselves and move about, all without batteries or information storage in their nanobodies.”

Even as early as 2010, these nano machines had legs that could walk and arms that could pick up nano particles. And there were dreams:

“Spiders might be able to seek and destroy cancers in the human body, assemble nanosized medical devices, and build tiny computers…”

Nano bots today

Today the cancer-battling nano robots are proven…at least in mice.

“The art of building nanoscale structures using DNA as a building material is called DNA origami and is something Björn Högberg’s research team has been working on for many years. Now they have used the technique to create a ‘kill switch’ that is activated under the right conditions.

“‘We have managed to hide the weapon in such a way that it can only be exposed in the environment found in and around a solid tumour,’ he says. ‘This means that we have created a type of nanorobot that can specifically target and kill cancer cells.’”

Of course, other nano bots could commit evil deeds, so watch out.

Eliminating the DNA Processing Backlog

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) virtually eliminated its DNA processing backlog in August 2026.

The FBI’s Federal DNA Database Unit (FDDU) handles DNA, and has historically processed about 100,000 DNA samples a year. Until COVID, when “a federal regulation change that happened to coincide with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic caused the unit’s workload to surge, eventually climbing to well over a million unprocessed samples.” 1.81 million to be exact at the peak in August 2024.

The regulation change? In addition to processing DNA from Department of Justice arrestees, the FDDU also had to process DNA from Department of Homeland Security arrestees. This increased the monthly rate to over 180,000.

Eliminating the DNA processing backlog. Google Gemini.
Eliminating the DNA processing backlog. Google Gemini.

So the FDDU increased staff and working hours (6:00 am to 11:00 pm) to bring the backlog down to near zero.

Which lets the team concentrate on other things.

“For now, [the team under FDDU leader “Michael S.”] is leaning more heavily than ever into rapid DNA technology, which essentially shrinks the timeline and physical footprint involved in DNA processing.

“’Rapid DNA instruments can now be produced that can create a CODIS-worthy profile within about 90 minutes,’ he explained. ‘So, instead of having a large lab, as we have set up with all kinds of robotic instrumentation to make everything efficient, the technology is pointing towards a miniaturized version of that, that all takes place in a much smaller box—probably about the size of a large microwave.’

“It’s also a more portable process, with the associated equipment being light enough to deploy to support FBI field operations across the United States.”

Remember all the rapid DNA workstations that were deployed for Florida’s Surfside Building collapse a few years ago? Like that.

So the FBI’s problem is solved, but is your problem solved? Does your company provide DNA or other biometric modalities, but you suffer from your own backlog of communicating with your prospects? John E. Bredehoft of Bredemarket offers extensive knowledge in DNA (and finger, face, iris, and voice).

Finger, face, iris, voice, DNA.

To learn more about Bredemarket and book a free meeting to discuss your needs, visit https://bredemarket.com/watch-book/.

The Man in Roanoke Couldn’t Tell DNA from EOB or CMZ

When I cast my “Roanoke” video in the early 20th century, I forgot something.

People knew what “fingerprints” were.

And although they didn’t know about other identification techniques, they knew what faces, irises, and voices were.

But they didn’t have a conception of DNA, which wasn’t universally recognized until the early 1950s.

Hence I had to represent that biometric modality as a weird, colorful dream.

Move Along Now (Biometric Product Marketing Expert)

John E. Bredehoft, Biometric Product Marketing Expert.

I ONLY want my hungry people to view this latest Biometric Product Marketing Expert short.

  • If you don’t care about biometrics, MOVE ALONG NOW.
  • If your company only hires “fresh perspective” (code word for young) people, MOVE ALONG NOW.
  • If your company believes that any use of AI is evil, MOVE ALONG NOW.
  • If your company conversely believes in surrendering your brain to whatever the AI god says, MOVE ALONG NOW.

Good. Now that they’re all gone, let’s talk about how a Biometric Product Marketing Expert can help your company.

Don’t tell anyone I said this, but LinkedIn dot com slash in slash jbredehoft.

Sneak Peek (Correctly Spelled) at Biometric Modality Audio

I’m working on a non-Bredemarket video.

Remember the pictures I shared on Thursday? (Try not to remember that the blog post was originally entitled “Sneak Peak.”)

Well, here’s the audio.

“The Sheriff’s Warning.” Google Lyria. Public Domain.

See you…Saturday?

Google Gemini.

Sneak Peek at Biometric Modality Pictures

I’m working on another personal non-Bredemarket video, and it includes these pictures representing five biometric modalities: finger, face, iris, voice, and DNA.

Finger.
Face.
Iris.
Voice.
DNA.

Plus this blooper.

Make the microphone bigger.

All images Google Gemini.