The ACT Supreme Court has heard an email incorrectly identifying a severely disabled girl’s brother as the father of her child, was an unfortunate mistake. The court is considering a c... Read more
Robert Green OBE, a forensic science lecturer at the University of Greenwich at Medway, says database would increase the chance of solving crimes A FORENSICS expert is calling for every new... Read more
On September 19, the Ninth Circuit is set to hear new arguments in Haskell v. Harris, a case challenging California’s warrantless DNA collection program. Today EFF asked the court to conside... Read more
On Wednesday, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit is scheduled to reconsider whether California violates the Fourth Amendment’s prohibition against searches and seizures... Read more
Investigators hit a wall when human remains are found but a match to those remains isn't. The state Medical Examiner's Office is now working to expand a database to help them find and identi... Read more
ALLEGED wide-scale corruption and theft at the country’s leading police forensic science laboratory is leading to massive backlogs in the finalisation of horrific crimes, including sex... Read more
The Czech Office for Personal Data Protection (UOOU) has ordered the shredding of some data from the National Crime database of DNA Profiles whose storage does not reflect the gravity of a c... Read more
The National Police Agency, which keeps its own DNA database of criminals, will build a real-time cross-database search system in cooperation with prosecutors, a spokesman said on Wednesday.... Read more
On Wednesday, September 19, in the circuit headquarters courthouse in San Francisco, the Ninth Circuit will hold a reargument en banc of Haskell v. Harris. In that case, people arrested cha... Read more
Donald Eugene Gates, convicted of murder in Washington D.C., would spend 28 years in prison before he was exonerated in 2009 through the tireless work of his lawyers at the Public Defender S... Read more