By expanding federal agents' authority to collect the DNA of immigrant detainees, the government has risked violating Americans’ rights.

Between 2020 and 2024, CBP took DNA from approximately 2,000 U.S. citizens, including at least 95 minors, and sent those samples for inclusion in CODIS.

For years, Customs and Border Protection agents have been quietly harvesting DNA from American citizens, including minors, and funneling the samples into an FBI crime database, government data shows.

Newly released data shows Customs and Border Protection funneled the DNA of nearly 2,000 US citizens—some as young as 14—into an FBI crime database, raising alarms about oversight and legality.

A judge in New York rejected a request on 23 September to disqualify the use of cutting-edge DNA sequencing as evidence in a case against an alleged serial killer. The ruling paves the way for a type ...

When Donatas Venclovas was arrested for assault in February 2025, his DNA was matched to a previously unresolved attempted rape case in Leicester in 2011. | ITV News Central ...

Advanced DNA technology identified remains found in 2013 as those of missing Napa woman Velma Louise Silva Lee.

Austin police partnered with genealogical experts who traced an unknown DNA sample found at the crime scene to Robert Eugene Brashers.

After more than three decades, Austin police said they've finally identified the man who killed four teenage girls at a yogurt shop in 1991.

Thanks to advanced DNA technology, authorities say the identified human remains found 12 years ago belong to Velma Louise Silva Lee of Napa. Lee was born in 1936 and had been missing for years.