FY 2013 SJS Project: Linking CHR and DNA data
2013-BJ-CX-K019
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2013
$76,120
Combined DNA Index System (CODIS)
CODIS
CODIS is an acronym for Combined DNA Index System, which is a computer software program that operates local, state, and national databases of DNA profiles from convicted offenders, unsolved crime scene evidence, and missing persons.
Survey of DNA Crime Laboratories, 1998
ADVANCE FOR RELEASE AT 4:30 P.M. EST BJS
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2000 202/307-0784
SIXTY-NINE PERCENT OF PUBLIC FORENSIC LABORATORIES
HAD DNA TEST BACKLOGS IN 1997
WASHINGTON, D.C. The first federal survey of publicly
operated forensic crime labs throughout the country has
revealed as of December 31, 1997, the labs had at least
6,800 unprocessed DNA cases and an additional 287,000
unprocessed convicted offender DNA samples...