DNA Database and Databank Act

This act organizes a state's principal law enforcement agency, continuing the department under a superintendent who appoints personnel, issues rules and regulations, and oversees specialized units including marine law enforcement and an inspection staff. Its central mechanism is a bureau of criminal identification: fingerprints and other identifying records are taken from suspects, arrestees, and persons confined in penal institutions, filed in a permanent repository, and compared against records already on hand, with courts, prosecutors, and state institutions required to report criminal charges, drug offenses, and crime statistics into the system. The bureau is also directed to instruct and assist local police, to exchange records with national identification agencies and participate in interstate violent-crime tracking programs, and officials who fail to perform their reporting duties are subject to penalty and removal. One flag on the input: those section titles describe a state police / criminal identification chapter (department organization, marine law enforcement, fingerprint records), not a DNA databank — no DNA collection, testing, expungement, or database-access provisions appear among them. If the page is titled "DNA Database and Databank Act," the title-to-section mapping for that act is likely wrong upstream, and the overview above deliberately claims nothing about DNA.

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