May 4, 2008 4:19 pm US/Pacific
Attny. General To Attend Richmond DNA Lab Opening
RICHMOND (BCN) ―
California Attorney General Jerry Brown is scheduled to attend a ceremony at the state's DNA laboratory in Richmond Monday to mark the completion of a $10 million expansion of the facility.
The laboratory and storage facility underwent a 28,000-foot expansion to prepare the state to collect a growing number of DNA samples required by Proposition 69, according to the attorney general's office.
The proposition, which was approved by voters in 2004, requires that the state start collecting DNA samples from every felony arrestee beginning Jan. 1, 2009.
The state's DNA database hosts more than 1 million DNA profiles and the expansion aims to accommodate more than 2 million samples expected over the next 5 years due to the proposition, according to the attorney general's office.
Bruce Harrington, a sponsor of the proposition, will join Brown at the ceremony at the Jan Bashinski DNA Laboratory, 1001 W. Cutting Blvd.
The California Attorney General's Office has the third largest DNA database in the world, following the national databases and in the U.S. and United Kingdom.
According to the attorney general's office, to date, the state laboratory has produced 6,000 hits linking crime scenes and offenders in the DNA database.
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