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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hannah Lovaglio's first son entered the world a month early. Nurses bustled in and out of the hospital room during his first days of life and frequently pricked his heel to check his blood, Lovaglio ...

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 ...