Alaskan Law Requires DNA From Accused Criminals, but Officials Failed to Collect Samples From 21,000 People: Alaska authorities neglected to collect DNA swabs from nearly a quarter of qualifying arrestees since 1995, the state said. The requirement was supposed to help solve sexual assault cases and put serial offenders behind bars

Alaskan Law Requires DNA From Accused Criminals, but Officials Failed to Collect Samples From 21,000 People: Alaska authorities neglected to collect DNA swabs from nearly a quarter of qualifying arrestees since 1995, the state said. The requirement was supposed to help solve sexual assault cases and put serial offenders behind bars The news organizations filed a public records request on May 20 asking for any preliminary estimate of the number of missing or owed DNA samples and for the names of those from whom the state had not yet collected a DNA sample. [Extracted from the article]