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. Prosecutors keep their own database of DNA samp... 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 challenged California’s statute requiring them to provide... 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 Service for the District of Columbia – but it was... Read more
The national analytical laboratory has suspended testing of DNA because of a lack of reagents — a development that will further frustrate the quest for justice, one of the reasons testing was introduced in 2007. Since May, the laboratory,... Read more
The government of Kashmir has rejected wide-scale DNA testing of bodies in thousands of unmarked graves despite pleas by the families of those who disappeared during two decades of fighting in the restive region. A report by the state’s h... Read more
South Carolina’s law enforcement agency will soon collect DNA samples from people when they’re arrested for a felony – rather than post-conviction – four years after legislators passed a law requiring the state’s DNA database to expand. State La... Read more
The UK's crime DNA database is the largest in the world, despite the European ruling it must remove the innocent and minors. Less well known is that the police can have access to the bioinformation held on the half-million recruited into the Wel... Read more
Swiss police are demanding compulsory DNA tests for asylum seekers after saying a rise in the numbers applying to stay in the country had a direct link with an increase in crime. Police believe that the DNA database will allow a faster clear up... Read more
Police chiefs in Canada are urging the federal government to move forward with a national missing persons and unidentified human remains DNA index. Dale McFee, the past president of the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police, says the index wo... Read more
COUNTERFEITERS, cattle rustlers, terrorists and drug cartels are all potential targets for DNA barcode technology to be commercially launched soon by Adelaide company GeneWorks, managers say. But the $82 billion global security market is not the... Read more