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CA: The state will search its database for relatives of unidentified suspects in hopes of developing leads.

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

California takes lead on crime-fighting techniques The state will search its database for relatives of unidentified suspects in hopes of developing leads. Critics voice privacy concerns. By Maura Dolan and Jason Felch, Los Angeles Times Staff Writers April 26, 2008 California will adopt the most aggressive approach in the nation to a controversial crime-fighting technique that uses DNA to try to identify elusive criminals through their relatives, state Atty. Gen. Jerry Brown announced Friday. Employing what is known as familial or "partial match" searching, the policy is aimed at identifying a suspect through DNA collected at a crime scene by looking for potential relatives in the state's genetic database of about a million felons. Once a relative is identified, police can use that person as a lead to trace the suspect...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on April 27, 2008 (boomark / email).