In nearly four years, a national DNA database — which is shared with law enforcement agencies nationwide — added more than 1.5 million noncitizen profiles. (Elana Marie / For De Los ) Routine ...

Donald Trump's administration is turning immigration screening into the backbone of a DNA surveillance system that reaches ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Legal Aid Society has filed a federal lawsuit accusing the New York Police Department of surreptitiously collecting genetic material from thousands of New Yorkers and storing it indefinitely in a ...

Hampden District Attorney Anthony Gulluni is hosting a free DNA collection event to help solve the 1990s cold case murder of Shana Price, using forensic investigative genetic genealogy (FIGG) ...

The move toward mass DNA testing has alarmed civil liberties advocates. The Trump administration revealed this week that it plans to begin taking DNA from detained migrants to track them in a national ...

Voluntary DNA samples were collected in an effort to find new leads in the 1990 homicide of 17-year-old Shana Renee Price.

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 ...