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Combined DNA Index System (CODIS)

Solving Missing Persons Cases

Date Published
May 24, 2010

National Missing and Unidentified Persons System has helped agencies solve cases and allowed families to find resolution.

NIJ FY 10 Convicted Offender and-or Arrestee DNA Backlog Reduction Program

Closing Date
This program is designed to accelerate the analysis of convicted offender and arrestee DNA samples collected by states. The goal is to provide timely data for the Combined DNA Index System (CODIS) for all 13 CODIS core STR loci. NIJ seeks applications from laboratories that want to reduce their backlog through in-house analysis or by sending samples to accredited fee-for-service laboratories for analysis. Eligible applicants...

NIJ FY 10 Using DNA Technology to Identify the Missing

Closing Date
The goal of the Using DNA Technology to Identify the Missing solicitation is threefold: (1) to assist eligible entities in performing DNA analysis on unidentified human remains and/or reference samples to support the efforts of states and units of local government to identify missing persons and (2) to enter the resulting DNA profiles into the FBI's National DNA Index System using the Combined DNA Index...

Debating DNA Collection

Date Published
October 28, 2009

DNA helps law enforcement investigate and prosecute crime, but the new trend of preconviction DNA collection raises serious Fourth Amendment issues for the criminal justice community.