Highlights

• Funding Highlights
  • Solving Cold Cases with DNA
  • Fiscal Year 2012 DNA Backlog Reduction Solicitation
• Training Highlights
  • Law 101: Legal Guide for the Forensic Expert
• Publication Highlights
  • The Road Ahead: Unanalyzed Evidence in Sexual Assault Cases
  • 2010 DNA Analysis Backlog Elimination Act of 2000 Report to Congress (pdf, 144 pages)

About Forensic DNA

DNA Databases

• Combined DNA Index System
  (CODIS)
• Capabilities of CODIS
• Local, state and national databases
• Procedures and administration
• Types of profiles
• Database hits

Forensic DNA Databases at the FBI

• National DNA Index (NDIS) Statistics
• Quality Assurance Standards: DNA Testing Laboratories
• Quality Assurance Standards: DNA Databasing Laboratories

Reducing the Backlog

Describing the Backlog (on NIJ.gov)

• Defining the Backlogs of Forensic DNA Evidence
• Forensic Casework Backlog
• Convicted Offender and Arrestee Samples Backlog
• Untested Evidence in Law Enforcement Agencies
• Why the Demand for DNA Testing Is Increasing
• Increasing the Capacity of Crime Laboratories

Funding Program

• DNA Backlog Reduction Program — Combines the former Forensic DNA and Convicted Offender/Arrestee Backlog Reduction Programs.

Solving Crimes

Cold Cases

• Solving Cold Cases
• Practical considerations
• Identifying, prioritizing and analyzing cases
• Funding for solving cold cases

Solving Property Crimes

• Solving property crimes

Identifying Persons and Victims

Postconviction Testing

See also...

Postconviction DNA Testing: Recommendations for Handling Postconviction Requests

Tools for Forensic Scientists

Services for Laboratories

• Sample Analysis
• Audits and Accreditation
• Collection Kits
• Quality Documents
• Expert System Testbed
• Sequencing Unusual STR Alleles
• Validation Information
• U.S. Y-STR Database
• Quality Assurance Standards (FBI)

See also...

• Tools for forensic scientists
• Forensic science support from the FBI

Statues and Case Law