Say this for the Vermont Legislature: Sometimes it just won’t take “no” for an answer, even when it should know better. In 2009, the Legislature passed a law extending the requirement to pro... Read more
A huge increase in DNA sampling may leave the depleted police forensics department scrambling to keep up when changes to the Crimes Act are enforced from July 1. Under the changes, police wi... Read more
DNA profiling is seen as an essential tool to identify criminals, dead bodies and for ascertaining parents. State Minister for Women and Children Affairs Meher Afroze placed Deoxyribonucleic... Read more
State police will destroy electronic data containing the profile of a former Provincetown man’s DNA that was collected during a highly publicized murder investigation, according to a s... Read more
An NHS Trust has apologised for “inexcusable failings” at a sexual assault referral centre in London after complaints that samples were not sent to forensic laboratories for DNA... Read more
A family’s complaint that San Diego police illegally collected DNA samples from them has prompted the department to create a new system. Officials have devised a consent form to be signed by... Read more
Drivers in North Fort Worth, Texas, are being pulled over at a police roadblock and asked for saliva, blood and breath samples. They are offered $10 for a cheek-swab DNA sample, $50 for a bl... Read more
Prompted by concerns over the ease with which foreigners will be able to travel in and out of the country once the Asean Economic Community (AEC) commences in 2015, the Institute for Forensi... Read more
Law-enforcement agencies in many places routinely take DNA samples from people convicted of murder and other violent crimes. But here in Orange County, officials also are taking samples from... Read more
When the Supreme Court issued the Maryland v. King opinion on June 3, 2013 upholding Maryland’s DNA Collection Act, numerous cases were pending in which similar DNA fingerprinting upon arres... Read more