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Panel approves technical DNA change to process samples for offenders with active warrants
Summary
The committee adopted a substitute and favorably recommended SB 140 to allow the crime lab to process qualifying offenders’ DNA samples when the arrested person has an active warrant (not limited to a failure-to-appear warrant). Sponsors said the change helps clear a backlog of unprocessed felony samples.
The committee adopted a first substitute and then voted to favorably recommend Senate Bill 140, changes intended to let the state crime lab process qualifying DNA samples more consistently when an arrested person has an active warrant.
Senator Plumb and Deputy Commissioner Jimmy Higgs of the Department of Public Safety explained that Utah’s current law allowed the lab to process samples when a failure-to-appear…
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