www.dps.texas.gov/CrimeLaboratory/CODIS/index.htm
The above link can guide you to the above webpage at the official website of the Texas Department of Public Safety state law-enforcement agency in Austin.
That DPS website offers helpful factual information for those of us who would love to see a significant increase the percentage of all current Texan residents and all current visitors to Texas whose DNA and fingerprints are on file in the computer records at the DPS and other public law-enforcement agencies in Texas.
At present, state law in Texas does NOT require that a person charged with a misdemeanor crime---regardless of whether that crime involves theft or an act of violence---must provide his DNA to a law-enforcement agency in Texas.
I am very hopeful that the Texas Legislature that convenes in January 2021 will add misdemeanor crimes to the categories of crimes for which an individual arrested and charged with that crime is legally required to provide a DNA sample to a government law-enforcement agency with jurisdiction.
Another current problem with our state penal code in regard to the circumstances in which DNA information about a crime suspect must be provided to a law-enforcement agency:
State law in Texas currently requires law-enforcement agencies in Texas to delete from their computer data base the DNA records for individuals who were not convicted in a court of law of the felony charge they had been arrested for.
I am sure that many Texans, myself among them, would love to see a revision to state law in January 2021 that denies any and all persons formally accused of any felony crime in Texas----regardless of whether they are actually convicted of that crime---of the legal "right" to have his or her DNA information deleted from the computer records of the Texas DPS.
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