1. Recent estimates indicate that the collection of arrestee and detainee samples may exceed one million samples per year.

2. The charges associated with each arrestee should be recorded along with their DNA profiles, so that the link between expanded collection schemes and crime might be tested.

3. On the same day, October 7, 2009, the American Civil Liberties Union filed a class action law suit challenging California's Arrestee DNA database statute.

4. States also should be required to report the number of backlogged samples from crime scene evidence separate from backlogs of offender and arrestee samples.

5. Even if labs had sufficient resources to both reduce backlogs and collect and analyze arrestee DNA, some initiatives to expand DNA databases raise constitutional concerns.

6. The greatest examples of this legislation include the recent passage of more comprehensive federal and state arrestee testing in the United States.

7. By law prosecutors must apply to the courts within 24 hours after arrest for permission to continue detaining an arrestee.

8. This would eliminate any racial bias, negate the need for the questionable technique of familial search, and of course be a far stronger tool for law enforcement than even an arrestee database.