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States Expanding Use of Offender DNA Databases

Increasingly states have been compelling all convicted felons to submit a DNA sample to an offender database. All 50 states collect DNA samples from convicted sex offenders.

DNA Backlog Hampers Use of New Crime-Fighting Tool, Stateline, August 30, 2001.