
The Department of Justice is developing a regulation related to the use of DNA for border security applications that will enable the Department of Homeland Security to expand its collection of DNA to detainees in its custody just as it uses other biometrics such a fingerprints, a senior DHS official said on Wednesday. The regulation is “forthcoming” and will establish a “framework for the way forward…for operational and practical issues” and will allow DHS to “phase in” a plan for…