In a legislative session filled with controversy and tension, one bill made it through the legislature without one dissenting vote. Senate Bill 1240a, written by Republican Senator Jim Rice, Democrat Senator Elliot Werk, and Republican Represent... Read more
For the first time, the NSW Police Force has used DNA testing to screen its newest crop of 189 student police against its crime database. The screening at the police academy last Saturday coincided with new figures, obtained under freedom of inf... Read more
IT’S being dubbed “molecular photofitting”: producing an image of a suspect’s face from DNA left at the crime scene. New research suggests that such reconstructions may soon be possible, giving police another investigativ... Read more
The Nebraska Supreme Court on Friday nixed a request for DNA testing of evidence gathered in the case of a man serving life in prison for shooting another man to death at an Omaha restaurant drive-thru. Antoine Young, 40, was convicted in 2008 o... Read more
A federal appeals court says California can continue to enforce its voter-approved DNA law, which requires police to take genetic samples of anyone arrested for a felony. But — to the relief of a Bay Area political protester and other opponents... Read more
Ontario’s police watchdog has launched a review of the DNA sampling practices of the Ontario Provincial Police after a complaint alleging racial profiling in the case of 100 migrant workers. The workers were subjected to a testing sweep, e... Read more
A plan to require people facing trial for certain crimes to submit DNA samples to law enforcement has been rejected by the Oklahoma House, despite an emotional plea from the bill’s author. On Wednesday, the House voted 51-35 against the bi... Read more
In this week’s episode of “TechKnow,” we highlight the latest advances in forensic technology that are helping law enforcement agencies identify suspects and solve crimes with increasing accuracy. Cases that were left cold for years are being re... Read more
A Weibo post, widely circulated among netizens, has called for “supporting Gao Xiang’s proposal, as a member of the Standing Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), for collecting the DNA da... Read more
For 19 years, Gerard Richardson sat in prison in New Jersey wondering how forensics experts had got his case so wrong. His conviction for a 1994 murder was based on a bite mark on the victim’s body that seemed to match his own teeth; it was the... Read more