Big Brother Watch finds police are keeping lots of DNA data on innocent people Police forces across the UK have no idea whether the DNA data they are storing relates to innocent or guilty people, indicating the government is going to have a toug... Read more
The city’s two most important cases, the Colaba rape case and the Karan Kakkad murder, are seeing a delay in investigations due to the lack of forensic equipment. Mumbai’s Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) has been struggling with the lack of ne... Read more
U.S. Sen. John Cornyn has introduced legislation that would help clear the staggering number of untested rape kits in Houston Police storage – some 6,663 at the agency’s last count – and help eliminate a nationwide backlog. Dur... Read more
Petition introduced in Parliament aimed at enacting legislation to create a DNA missing persons database and an unidentified human remains database. Read more
A vial purportedly containing dried blood from former President Ronald Reagan after a 1981 assassination attempt will not be auctioned online, but donated to Reagan’s presidential foundation, officials said Thursday. The online sale by PFC... Read more
The large number of unexamined rape kits nationwide -- as high as 400,000 by some estimates -- is drawing attention across the country as well. Read more
Documents just released by US Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) in response to one of EFF’s Freedom of Information Act requests show that DHS is considering collecting DNA from kids ages 14 and up—and is exploring expanding its regulat... Read more
In a controversial move that threatens to increase the intrusion by the state into the lives of ordinary citizens, the UPA government is set to introduce a DNA Profiling Bill in the winter session of Parliament. Once it becomes a law, the bill w... Read more
MAJOR criminal investigations, including the nationwide crackdown on burglars, are being hampered by the failure of successive governments to establish a DNA database. Senior investigators say that databases in other countries — suc... Read more
Staff at “over-stretched” forensic science laboratories face “burn-out” after an instruction by the Treasury for the police to cut back on hiring in the coming year. Lieutenant General Johannes Phahlane, the SA Police Service divisional commissi... Read more