The state-of-the-art hub will be used to help safeguard children from child sexual abuse and exploitation, and to combat various other forms of cybercrime, which are not restricted by borders.
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The Senate has passed the Debbie Smith Reauthorization Act of 2019 by unanimous consent, authorizing the Justice Department to spend up to $151 million in grants to states and localities to address the rape kit backlog.
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The Department of Justice’s Office of Justice Programs announced it has awarded funding totaling over $62 million to provide services designed to protect officers and improve overall public safety. The grants go to law enforcement departments, local jurisdictions, and training, technical assistance and research organizations throughout the United States.
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Innovative Forensic DNA is partnering with the Southeastern Homicide Investigators Association (SEHIA) and Project: Cold Case to launch "Upload for Justice," a year-long collaborative initiative to encourage law enforcement officers, families of victims, survivors, advocates, and the public to upload their DNA to Family Tree DNA and GEDmatch for use in cold case investigations.
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The Justice Department announced a crackdown Wednesday aimed at driving down violent crime in seven of the nation’s most violent cities.
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When Verogen announced its acquisition of GEDmatch last week, some were apprehensive. But Verogen CEO Brett Williams told Forensic there will be no massive changes to the database and the privacy concerns of its users will be upheld.
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How accurately do face recognition software tools identify people of varied sex, age and racial background? According to a new study by NIST, the answer depends on the algorithm at the heart of the system.
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The Organization of Scientific Area Committees (OSAC) for Forensic Science has added the 25th standard to its registry of approved standards.
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Prosecutors are asking the Mississippi Crime Lab to speed up testing on evidence in the death penalty case of a man charged in the 2018 shooting deaths of two police officers.
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For most people, sweat is an unwelcome part of their day. In Jan Halamek’s laboratory, it’s an important biometric research tool and sample. Researchers have developed strips that can test the ethanol levels in a person’s sweat to detect their blood alcohol content.
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Gender-tailored methods to address the harmful mental health effects of childhood adversity may help alleviate the current opioid crisis and make treatment more effective.
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The emergence of smart cars has opened the door to limitless possibilities for technology and innovation – but also to threats beyond the car itself. New research from Michigan State University is the first to apply criminal justice theory to smart vehicles, revealing cracks in the current system leading to potential cyber risks.
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Joseph Dalessandro, an expert and professor in IT at Tulane University, breaks down the top cybersecurity threats and trends in 2020. Dalessandro predicts hackers will continue to focus on what works best and augment it with new and novel methods of attack. Here are his top five cybersecurity trends to watch in 2020.
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The Kansas Bureau of Investigation (KBI) with assistance from the DNA Doe Project has identified the remains of a previously unidentified homicide victim who was found in 1987 in Marion County, Kansas.
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STRmix has been ruled admissible in two recent Colorado court cases. The two Colorado decisions bring the number of successful U.S. admissibility hearings regarding STRmix to 30.
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