SECTION 28.22. DNA Database Purposes

The director may receive, analyze, store, and destroy a record, profile, or sample for the following purposes:

(1) to assist a federal, state, or local criminal justice agency in the investigation or prosecution of sex-related offenses or other offenses in which biological evidence is recovered;

(2) in criminal cases, for use in the investigation of an offense, the exclusion or identification of suspects or offenders, and the prosecution or defense of the case;

(3) to assist in the recovery or identification of human remains from a disaster or for humanitarian purposes;

(4) to assist in the identification of living or deceased missing persons;

(5) if personal identifying information is removed:

(A) to establish a population statistics database; and

(B) to assist in identification research, forensic validation studies, or forensic protocol development;

(6) retesting to validate or update the original analysis or to assist in database or DNA laboratory quality control.

Source Note: The provisions of this §28.22 adopted to be effective February 7, 2005, 30 TexReg 407; amended to be effective April 30, 2007, 32 TexReg 2371