The Government Accountability Office (GAO) is recommending that U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) uses better data to help determine its compliance with DNA collection requirements. Federal law ...

In April 2018, a remarkable event occurred that forever impacted criminal investigations. The Golden State Killer was finally arrested. And, more interestingly, was the method law enforcement used to ...

For years, the federal government has been amassing DNA profiles of noncitizens. But recently released Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data reveal that officials knowingly collected the DNA of ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Ever since the Trump administration scaled up DNA collection from migrants in federal ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court announced Friday that it will decide whether it’s legal for police to collect DNA samples from people under arrest, a case that could have nationwide implications ...

LOS ANGELES — Routine collection of immigrants’ DNA by federal authorities has ballooned since 2020, with a 50-fold spike in the number of samples held in a national database of the sensitive genetic ...

US Customs and Border Protection collected DNA samples from less than 40% of illegal immigrants stopped at the nation’s borders in 2022, preventing federal law enforcement from solving violent ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) is raising concerns over the Trump administration expanding a program that allows immigration enforcement agents to collect DNA from detained ...

NDIANAPOLIS (AP) - DNA samples could be collected upon an individual's felony arrest under a measure being considered by Indiana lawmakers. Current law allows collecting DNA samples from convicted ...

U.S. Customs and Border Protection initiated Monday a limited, small-scale pilot program to assess the operational impact of proposed regulatory changes that would require the collection of DNA ...

UNCOLLECTED DNA. SHE KNOWS FIRST-HAND HOW IMPORTANT THAT CAN BE. >> I WAS THE VICTIM OF A HOME INVASION RAPE WHEN I WAS 19. KAREN: ASHLEY SPENCE WAS A SOPHOMORE AT ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY IN 2003 ...