Washington State Wants DNA Sampling of All Arrested Individuals
This week, some Washington state lawmakers are pushing a proposal that would require police to extract DNA from every arrested individual. At present, Washington police take DNA samples only from those who have already been convicted of a crime, as a warrant is necessary to obtain the DNA of mere suspects. Under the provisions of the proposal, the collected DNA would be sent off to a State ...
As USA Today reported yesterday, the Clermont County, OH sheriff's department is mopping up the mean streets of Cincinnati with assistance from the very latest in crime-fighting techno-gadgetry. The newly deployed Mobilisa m2500 DefenseID system is a handheld scanner that reads the magnetic strip or barcode on state IDs, driver's licenses and passports. The system then checks the ID against 140 ...









