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 foun... 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 kid... 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 s... 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 investig... 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 Johan... Read more
Garr Keith Hardin and Jeffrey D. Clark, who were convicted and sentenced to life in prison, will ask the Kentucky Supreme Court on Wednesday to allow DNA testing of the hairs and other evide... Read more
Human error at a private forensic services lab is being blamed for DNA contamination that led to the wrong man facing trial for rape. Read more
As his defense lawyers were working to free Michael Morton from prison because of a wrongful conviction that raised questions of prosecutor misconduct, Austin police doctored a crime lab rep... Read more