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Dunn County CJCC hears DOJ briefing on missed DNA samples, votes to form collection subcommittee
Summary
A Department of Justice prosecutor briefed Dunn County’s Criminal Justice Coordinating Council on statewide missed DNA collections and local strategies; the council formed a subcommittee to map local collection processes and agreed to address related warrant fee procedures.
Judge Christina Meyer, chair of the Dunn County Criminal Justice Coordinating Council, opened the meeting and introduced Stephanie Hilton of the Wisconsin Department of Justice, who briefed the council on a multi-county effort to identify and collect DNA samples that courts or convictions required but that have not yet been submitted to the state crime lab.
Hilton said the project aims to ‘‘identify who has not provided a DNA, but is required by law to do so, and then to figure out a plan to collect these samples.’’ She told the council the Department of Justice (DOJ) compiles quarterly updates from the crime lab to flag criminal-history records where a collection is missing and that the project combines multiple imperfect data sources to produce lists local agencies can use.
The presentation put Dunn County’s tally at 235 people identified as owing a DNA sample (current as of the December report Hilton cited). Hilton outlined statewide results from the DOJ…
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