Cops track crims through family DNA

Cops track crims through family DNA - The INQUIRER:

"A CONTROVERSIAL NEW law in California is allowing police to track down criminals by trawling through the state's DNA database looking for profiles of close family members.

The LAPD hope that in cases where a perp’s DNA doesn’t match up to any DNA profiles in the database, family members whose DNA is on file may be able to give detectives a clue to his/her whereabouts.

The method is not a new one, having started out in Britain several years ago, but California's newly-approved familial searching policy will be the most far-reaching one in the US and is already making privacy advocates itchy."