16.748: Convicted Offender and/or Arrestee DNA Backlog Reduction Program

16.748

Inactive

Department of Justice (DOJ)

July 30, 2012

July 6, 2010

To accelerate the analysis of convicted offender and/or arrestee DNA samples collected by States pursuant to applicable law for databasing purposes (hereinafter, DNA database samples), in order to provide timely Combined DNA Index System (CODIS)- compatible data for all 13 CODIS core STR loci for State and national DNA databases. Funds are to be used by a State's designated existing and accredited DNA database laboratory to reduce the backlog of DNA database samples in one of three ways: a) Through in-house analysis. The DNA database laboratory will determine what its backlog is and can apply for no more than $35.00 per sample to be analyzed. If the database laboratory lacks funding to ensure timely review of the profiles generated, it may apply for no more than $5.00 per DNA profile generated in-house for no more than $40.00 per sample tested in-house. b) Through sending samples to be tested by accredited fee-for-service laboratories. Funding requests for this option are to be calculated in exactly the same fashion as for the in-house testing option above. c) Through data review of sample profiles generated by an accredited fee-for-service laboratory. If the database laboratory lacks funding to ensure timely review of the profiles generated, it may apply for no more than $5.00 per DNA profile generated. All profiles obtained from DNA database samples with funding provided under this announcement must be entered in the Combined DNA Index System (CODIS) within 90 days of completion of analysis and uploaded to the National DNA Index System (NDIS). Laboratories that receive funds from awards made under this announcement for sample testing and review must track and report the number of DNA database samples analyzed and/or reviewed under this program and the number of resulting CODIS hits.

A - Formula Grants

Eligible applicants are States with a designated existing crime laboratory that conducts analysis of DNA database samples, provided the designated DNA database laboratory meets all of the following requirements: The laboratory is accredited by a nonprofit professional association of persons actively involved in forensic science that is nationally recognized within the forensic science community. If the laboratory requests assistance with analysis of samples in-house, then the laboratory must possess sufficient in-house DNA analysis capacity to analyze at least 50 percent of its annual receipt of DNA database samples, or a minimum of 5,000 DNA database samples per month. The laboratory is a participant in the National DNA Index System (NDIS). The laboratory undergoes external audits, not less than once every 2 years, to demonstrate compliance with DNA Quality Assurance Standards established by the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. For purposes of this announcement, the term State includes the District of Columbia and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. For those States that use a laboratory operated by a unit of local government for analysis of the State's DNA database samples, the application must be submitted by the unit of local government having oversight of the DNA database program.

Eligible applicants are States with a designated existing crime laboratory that conducts analysis of DNA database samples, provided the designated DNA database laboratory meets all of the following requirements: The laboratory is accredited by a nonprofit professional association of persons actively involved in forensic science that is nationally recognized within the forensic science community. If the laboratory requests assistance with analysis of samples in-house, then the laboratory must possess sufficient in-house DNA analysis capacity to analyze at least 50 percent of its annual receipt of DNA database samples, or a minimum of 5,000 DNA database samples per month. The laboratory is a participant in the National DNA Index System (NDIS). The laboratory undergoes external audits, not less than once every 2 years, to demonstrate compliance with DNA Quality Assurance Standards established by the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. For purposes of this announcement, the term State includes the District of Columbia and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. For those States that use a laboratory operated by a unit of local government for analysis of the State's DNA database samples, the application must be submitted by the unit of local government having oversight of the DNA database program.

16.741 - DNA Backlog Reduction Program