Over the last few years, we’ve been battling laws that require a person arrested to give a DNA sample as part of the routine booking process. The law makes this DNA collection a... Read more
Ever hear the phrase "slippery slope"? We're on one here, folks. And that's exactly what critics of expanded DNA sampling have been warning about. Read more
The major blunder that sent detectives on the Gareth Williams inquiry down a blind alley for more than a year is the second embarrassment admitted this month by Britain’s biggest priva... Read more
A proposal for an Australia-wide DNA database is building momentum, a 7News report has revealed. The idea for a genetic profiling registry is supported by Police Minister Michael Gallacher,... Read more
A new law permits police to get genetic samples from almost anyone convicted of any crime in New York state. Collecting DNA data is not, in itself, necessarily problematic, and indeed has th... Read more
FIST exchanges and the hurling of obscenities among spouses who have obtained their tests after undergoing Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) tests are now a thing of the past. In fact, there is a... Read more
The Police Chiefs of the East African Community (EAC) Partner States have overwhelmingly supported an EAC initiative to set up a Regional Referral Forensic Centre (RRFC) to tame crime. The P... Read more
Rwanda’s Inspector General of Police Emmanuel Gasana has told security professionals from the East African Community (EAC) that Rwanda National Police was on course to complete a state-of-th... Read more
We live in a system where companies lobby governments all the time for policies that will improve their bottom line, but never has that bottom line been so directly at the expense of civil r... Read more
I’m here to tell you that bigger aren’t better when it comes to forensic DNA databases. The power of DNA databases is diluted, not strengthened when marginal criminals are added. Read more