All four plaintiffs were arrested while protesting; two were charged but their cases were dismissed. They allege the cheek swabs used to collect their DNA violated their Fourth Amendment rights and ...
"I just find this to be abhorrent," 71-year-old Dana Briggs told The New York Times. "If we don't have a right to our own ...
After accusations flew in dueling legal filings earlier this week, a federal judge on Thursday officially dismissed the main ...
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 ...
In a lawsuit, an Air Force veteran says that the federal government is sending a “chilling message” to people demonstrating ...
Under Illinois law, the basis for collecting DNA is even stricter, protesters noted. Only people “arrested for first degree ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
DNA databases might help identify victims of crime and human trafficking, but how do we safeguard the personal privacy of innocent victims and family members? A new report online May 15 in the Cell ...