The General Assembly finds and declares that:
(1) Forensic DNA testing is an important tool in criminal investigations, in excluding innocent individuals who are the subject of criminal investigations or prosecutions and in detecting and deterring repeated crimes by the same individual.
(2) Several states have enacted laws requiring persons convicted of certain crimes, especially sex offenses, to provide genetic samples for DNA profiling.
(3) Moreover, it is the policy of the Commonwealth to assist Federal, State and local criminal justice and law enforcement agencies in the identification and detection of individuals in criminal investigations.
(4) It is in the best interest of the Commonwealth to establish a DNA data base and a DNA data bank containing DNA samples submitted by individuals convicted of, adjudicated delinquent for or accepted into ARD for felony sex offenses and other specified offenses.
(5) It is in the best interest of the Commonwealth to authorize the State Police to use DNA analysis and to identify these individuals to a criminal justice agency in certain cases.
(Oct. 24, 2018, P.L.896, No.147, eff. 360 days)
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