In October, the City Council introduced a bill to limit the NYPD’s collection of DNA samples. Co-sponsors Diana Ayala and Donovan Richards seek to prevent gathering samples from minors without their ...

Four parents in Michigan jumped into a long-running ethical debate over the collection and storage of newborns’ blood samples by suing to force the state to destroy their children’s samples or ...

Gardaí in a number of divisions have failed to submit forensic data satisfactorily to the National DNA Database System, according to a new report. The database is used to investigate and solve crimes ...

DNA samples from about 1,600 Delaware criminals were found in a box in the state Medical Examiner’s Office in 2014, having never been entered into a national database of sex offenders and others ...

An overburdened administrator plus a lack of checks and balances in the now-defunct State Medical Examiner's Office created a situation in which the DNA samples of more than 1,600 Delaware criminals ...

The five teenage boys were sitting in a parked car in a gated community in Melbourne, Florida, when a police officer pulled up behind them. Officer Justin Valutsky closed one of the rear doors, which ...