Analyzing the DNA samples of juveniles who have not been found guilty of any crime is an unconstitutional warrantless search, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled Wednesday. In a unanimous decisi... Read more
Taking DNA samples from people arrested, but not convicted of a crime, has the potential to make our already unfair justice system even less fair. Before we expand the preconviction DNA drag... Read more
CONVICTED criminals will have to wait for six years after their release from prison before their DNA samples are removed from a national database, the recently concluded policy on the creati... Read more
The National Biotechnology Development Agency (NABDA) has called for a Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) databank of all Nigerians to help in tackling insecurity and healthcare challanges. NABDA... Read more
Guest post by Koichi Kameda Centre for Technology and Society Rio de Janeiro, Brazil On the late 28 May, the Brazilian President signed legislation concerning DNA databases for crimin... Read more
The Secretariat for Police is set to present a DNA policy, which is going to underpin the second draft of the DNA Bill, to the Portfolio Committee for Police on Wednesday. The Secretariat of... Read more
One of Nova Scotia’s top public safety officers has been in Ottawa the past two days to determine the ramifications of the pending closure of the RCMP forensic lab in Halifax. Robert Purcell... Read more
Big Brother Watch finds police are keeping lots of DNA data on innocent people Police forces across the UK have no idea whether the DNA data they are storing relates to innocent or guilty pe... Read more
The city’s two most important cases, the Colaba rape case and the Karan Kakkad murder, are seeing a delay in investigations due to the lack of forensic equipment. Mumbai’s Forensic Science L... Read more
U.S. Sen. John Cornyn has introduced legislation that would help clear the staggering number of untested rape kits in Houston Police storage – some 6,663 at the agency’s last cou... Read more