More DNA Databases and Cold Searches.

The L.A. Times has published another article on DNA databases, this time focusing on a researcher in Arizona who has found some evidence that nine-loci DNA matches may be much more common than FBI experts often state in court. This has led to calls for broader searches to see if the phenomenon is true in larger databases, such as the FBI’s CODIS.

The FBI is stonewalling, even threatening to bar states who consent to similar statistical searches of their own databases from accessing the national CODIS system.

[The Agitator]

I think we can safely take that as an acknowledgement by the FBI that a “nine-loci DNA match” (whatever that is) is indeed more common that the FBI has been claiming.