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. |
