[hunter112]

Did you know that it is a FELONY to steal avacados from an orchard?

Interesting, I didn't know there were avocado orchards in Massachusetts.

Seriously, how is this any different from the state keeping fingerprint records on convicted felons? They already keep them on anybody arrested, even those who beat the rap. It exonerates the innocent, when fingerprint evidence is found at a crime scene. It would have the same effect here.

I'd have a problem with the privacy issue if government wanted to track the legal whereabouts of people doing legal things, but as a crime solving tool, where's the objection?

[teeman8r]

i would argue that fingerprints taken to be compared to crime scene evidence would violate the fifth amendment of self incrimination... court orders for dna samples and fingerprints with judges approval and no records kept after exoneration to be permitted, but fishing expeditions are arguably tools of tyrants.