Kate’s law. Katie’s law. What’s the difference?
Katie’s Law, also known as the Katie Sepich Enhanced DNA Collection Act of 2010, is a proposed federal law to provide funding to states to implement minimum and enhanced DNA collection processes for felony arrests. The bill is named after Katie Sepich who was brutally attacked outside of her New Mexico home in August 2003. She was raped, strangled, her body set on fire, and abandoned at an old dump site.
Katie’s attacker’s skin and blood were found under her fingernails. This DNA profile was sent to the Combined DNA Index System (CODIS) where officials hoped a match would be made. A DNA match identified Gabriel Adrian Avila, who had been arrested in November 2003 for aggravated burglary and was serving time in the New Mexico Corrections System since November 2004. After being confronted with his DNA evidence, Avila subsequently confessed to the murder of Sepich.
The proposed Kate’s Law has to do with the murder of Kate Steinle in San Francisco. She was shot in the back as she strolled the Embarcadero with her father. The alleged perp is, you guessed it, illegal, undocumented, whatever.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Kathryn_Steinle