The local agencies create the rules for their databases, in some cases allowing samples to be taken from children or from people never arrested for a crime. Frederick Harran, the public safety director in Bensalem Township, Pennsylvania, was an early adopter of a local database. Police typically get a DNA sample by swabbing the inside of a person's mouth. "Everything with the local DNA databases is skirting the spirit of the regulations." Harran said he knows of about 60 departments using local databases.

Source: ABC News March 04, 2017 15:25 UTC