What percent are individuals not covered by the statute?
DR. SOZER: In Ohio I probably have the best feel, and it may be less than 1 percent. But even a very small number of people that are there and shouldn’t be there, it’s a tremendous amount of work. Someone has to request that that sample be expunged, someone has to research that, someone has to physically get the sample, destroy the records, destroy the sample, and it’s a tremendous amount of work. So even a very, very small amount of samples really can translate into a tremendous amount of work. You can go into a collection facilities where they have, by mistake, 20 samples or 30 samples in one day taken that they shouldn’t have. It’s lot of manpower. COMMISSIONER SMITH: When you say somebody has to request the expungement, somebody other than your own personnel? DR. SOZER: We don’t know. When samples come into a laboratory sometimes you don’t know why they are there. Someone will have to identify that that person was collected. Maybe it will be the individual themselves who say accord
