Purpose

  1. Law
  2. Arkansas Code
  3. Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, and Military Affairs
  4. Law Enforcement Agencies and Programs
  5. Crime Reporting and Investigations
  6. State Convicted Offender DNA Data Base Act
  7. Purpose

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The General Assembly finds and declares that:

  1. (1) DNA data banks are an important tool in:

    1. (A) Criminal investigations;

    2. (B) The exclusion of individuals who are the subjects of criminal investigations or prosecutions; and

    3. (C) Deterring and detecting recidivist acts;

  2. (2) Several states have enacted laws requiring persons convicted of certain crimes, especially sexual offenses, to provide genetic samples for DNA profiling;

  3. (3) Moreover, it is the policy of this state to assist federal, state, and local criminal justice and law enforcement agencies in the identification and detection of individuals in criminal investigations; and

  4. (4) It is therefore in the best interest of the State of Arkansas to establish a DNA data base and a DNA data bank containing DNA samples submitted by individuals convicted of sex offenses and violent offenses.


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