State of California
Enid A. Camps, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, DNA Legal Unit
Enid Camps is the assigned legal advisor to the California Department of Justice [DOJ] DNA Laboratory. In this capacity, she primarily handles DNA cases at the appellate level. Her cases have helped define the development of law on DNA admissibility in California. On behalf of the Attorney General’s office, she drafted, in conjunction with the State’s DOJ DNA Lab, the DNA and Forensic Identification Data Base and Data Bank Act of 1998, a comprehensive chapter of laws defining and governing the operation of California’s DNA data bank program. The following is from testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee during June…