§ 12-1.5-10. Procedures for conduct, disposition and use of DNA analysis.
The department of health shall promulgate procedures to be used in the collection,
submission, identification, analysis, storage and disposition of DNA samples and typing
results of DNA samples submitted under this chapter. These procedures shall meet or
exceed the current standards for quality assurance and proficiency testing for DNA
analysis issued by the F.B.I. All DNA sample typing results, all DNA records and all
DNA samples shall be securely stored in the state of Rhode Island DNA database and
DNA databank respectively, in the following manner:
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§ 12-1.5-10. Procedures for conduct, disposition and use of DNA analysis.
The department of health shall promulgate procedures to be used in the collection,
submission, identification, analysis, storage and disposition of DNA samples and typing
results of DNA samples submitted under this chapter. These procedures shall meet or
exceed the current standards for quality assurance and proficiency testing for DNA
analysis issued by the F.B.I. All DNA sample typing results, all DNA records and all
DNA samples shall be securely stored in the state of Rhode Island DNA database and
DNA databank respectively, in the following manner:
(1) All DNA sample typing results and the DNA records shall be stored in a computer database
after all personal identifiers have been removed. Further, these records shall be
accessed only through the use of an encryption code. The encryption code shall be
confidential and only those persons authorized by the department of health and charged
with responsibilities under this chapter shall have access to these records and shall
be given the encryption code.
(2) All DNA samples shall be securely locked, with a coded locking system, in a DNA databank
at the department of health and only the director of the department of health and
the head of the DNA laboratory shall have access to these DNA samples to carry out
the provisions of this chapter.
(3) The department of health is authorized to contract with third parties for purposes
of creating a DNA record only. Any third party contracting to carry out the functions
of this chapter shall be subject to the same restrictions and requirements of this
chapter, and DNA samples provided to third parties pursuant to this section shall
have all personal identification removed.
(4) Except as otherwise provided in § 12-1.5-11, DNA samples and DNA records collected under this chapter shall be used only for
law enforcement identification purposes or to assist in the recovery of identification
of human remains from disasters or for other humanitarian identification purposes,
including identification of missing persons; and
(5) DNA samples and DNA records collected under this chapter shall never be used under
the provisions of this chapter for the purpose of obtaining information about physical
characteristics, traits or predispositions for disease.