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How to Build a Human; A Forensics Company Tells Cops It Can Use DNA to Predict a Suspect’s Face. Scientists Worry the Tool Will Deepen Racial Bias. by Jordan Smith Originally published on February 2, 2025. Republished with permission from The Intercept https://theintercept.com/2025/02/02/forensic-dna-phenotyping-parabon-nanolabs-police/, an award-winning nonprofit news organization dedicated to …
Article • February 15, 2025 • from CLN March, 2025
Study: DNA Transfer in Social Settings by Michael Thompson by Michael Dean Thompson With every breath you take, you shed DNA. It is in the skin cells that flake off your body by the millions, the hair that floats off as you walk, and the oil you leave behind on …
Article • February 1, 2025 • from CLN February, 2025
Study Highlights Limitations in Forensic DNA Analysis Involving Lower Genetic Diversity Groups by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Not A University of Oregon study, “Decreased accuracy of forensic DNA mixture analysis for groups with lower genetic diversity” published in Volume 27, Issue 11, 111067 of iScience in November 2024 …
Article • December 1, 2024 • from CLN December, 2024
Filed under: Databases, DNA Evidence
Forensic Genetic Genealogy: Police Are Searching Genetic Genealogy Companies’ Databases Regardless of Whether They Have Permission by Matthew Clarke, Ann Foster by Matt Clarke with research assistance by Ann Foster Millions of people have submitted oral cheek (buccal) swab samples to companies like 23andMe and Ancestry hoping to use their …
Article • October 1, 2024 • from CLN October, 2024
Cops Want to Use DNA for Facial Recognition by Michael Thompson by Michael Dean Thompson Provide a DNA sample, and Parabon NanoLabs’ tech will generate a projected 3D image of a suspect’s face. The process takes advantage of AI trained on the DNA and 3D facial scans of thousands of …
Article • September 1, 2024 • from CLN September, 2024
DNA Databases, Privacy Concerns, and Noble Cause Bias by Michael Thompson by Michael Dean Thompson Networked Privacy and DNA Dana Boyd who was one of the first to describe the idea of Networked Privacy has pointed out that choice is not really individual in the network. That is, the choices …
Article • September 1, 2024 • from CLN September, 2024
Filed under: junk science, DNA Evidence
Years of Warnings Ignored as DNA Analyst at Colorado Crime Lab Allegedly Cut Corners, Her Misconduct Casts Doubt on Thousands of Cases by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott 20th Judicial District Court Judge Patrick Butler unsealed a troubling internal affairs report from the Colorado Bureau of Investigation (“CBI”) …
Texas Man Exonerated by DNA Evidence After 25 Years of Maintaining His Innocence by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott Martin Lucio Santillan, now 50 years old, was fully exonerated in the Frank Crowley Criminal Courts in Dallas, Texas, on March 22, 2023. His 25 years of wrongful imprisonment …
Article • August 1, 2024 • from CLN August, 2024
Dozens of Prisoners in Colorado Notified About Potential Compromised DNA Evidence by In early July, dozens of incarcerated individuals in Colorado counties Arapahoe and Douglas, received a promising letter from the District Attorney’s office. DA John Kellner was notifying defendants in cases that could have been affected by allegations of …
Article • January 15, 2024 • from CLN January, 2024
Human DNA Retrieved From Dogs Might Provide Evidence by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney Researchers from Flinders University in Australia published the results of a study involving the work of the Victoria Police Forensic Services Department and Deakin University regarding the collection of human DNA from 20 dogs from separate …
Article • December 15, 2023 • from CLN December, 2023
New York Court Rules Police Allowed to Use Familial DNA Searches by Jordan Arizmendi by Jordan Arizmendi In 2022, a New York court barred law enforcement from using familial DNA searches (“FDS”). According to the court, the state’s regulations for FDS were invalid because they first needed to be approved by the …
Colorado’s Amendments to Post-Conviction DNA Testing Statute Allows Greater Number of Affected Persons to Seek Testing by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On March 10, 2023, Governor Jared Polis signed House Bill 1034 (“HB 1034”) into law, opening the door to a greater number of people convicted of felonies to …
Article • March 15, 2023 • from CLN April, 2023
Law Enforcement Accesses Commercial DNA Databases Without Warrant by Eike Blohm, MD by Eike Blohm, MD Joseph James DeAngelo, known as the Golden State Killer who committed heinous crimes in California during the 1970s and 1980s, has been caught. Police were able to match crime scene DNA to DeAngelo’s distant …
Article • August 13, 2022
Filed under: DNA Evidence
NJ Collects DNA Samples of All Babies Born in State and Police Can Access Data by The New Jersey Office of the Public Defender and the New Jersey Monitor recently filed a complaint against the New Jersey Department of Health Division and Environmental Laboratories seeking access to subpoenas served to …
Article • May 15, 2022 • from CLN June, 2022
New York Court of Appeals: Frye Hearing Required to Determine Admissibility of DNA Evidence Generated by Proprietary Forensic Statistical Tool by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney The Court of Appeals of New York reversed an order of the Appellate Division that had affirmed a trial court’s order denying a hearing …
Article • March 17, 2022
Rape Victim’s DNA Was Used by Police to Arrest Her on Unrelated Charges Six Years Later by According to an article from Forensic, a woman whose DNA sample from sexual assault evidence was used to arrest her on unrelated property crime charges six years later is planning to sue the …
Article • August 15, 2021 • from CLN September, 2021
Maryland and Montana: First States to Pass Laws Restricting Access to Consumer Genealogy Databases by Law Enforcement by Casey Bastian by Casey J. Bastian In recent years, law enforcement has realized the enormous potential to solve crimes by using genetic genealogy databases. New laws in Maryland and Montana seek to …
Article • December 23, 2020
Makers of DNA Analytic STRmix Announce New Enhancement Allowing Better, Faster DNA Searches by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell Makers of the ground-breaking DNA analyzing program STRmix have announced an addition to that program that will allow more robust DNA searches and analysis in criminal cases. It’s called DBLR (database …