From JSOnline.com:

Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen said Thursday his office is drafting legislation to clarify state law to say that felons who have served their sentences are still obligated to submit a DNA sample.

The legislation is part of the effort to close the gap in the state’s databank, which last year was found to be missing more than 12,000 DNA samples.

Van Hollen sent an 18-page letter Thursday to state Department of Corrections Secretary Rick Raemisch that says that the Department of Justice has been working with the Legislative Reference Bureau to develop legislation to modify the DNA submission statute.

The letter is important because it provides the first official interpretation of the state’s DNA submission law by the attorney general’s office. The state statute doesn’t expressly say that offenders are still obligated to submit DNA if they are no longer in prison, on probation or on parole.

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