article_snippet: Davidson County District District Attorney Glenn Funk, a former defense attorney who took over the office in September, has ordered lawyers in the office not to seek sterilization by defendants.
article_snippet: Davidson County District Attorney Glenn Funk said Davidson County District Attorney Glenn Funk hadn't heard of it happening before but didn't ask, according to the Tennessean.
article_snippet: The bottom line is the government can't be ordering a forced sterilization.'
article_snippet: Davidson County District Attorney Glenn Funk said people could be ordered to stay away from children and the state wouldn't have to resort to such invasive measures.
highlights_snippet: Davidson County District Attorney Glenn Funk has now banned practice .
  
highlights_snippet: Davidson County District Attorney Glenn Funk said: 'The government can't be ordering a forced sterilization'
  Assistant district attorney has insisted on sterilization to avoid prison in past .