Evidence Preservation in Rhode Island

State statute requires that law enforcement agencies preserve biological evidence collected in any case leading to criminal conviction for the length of an individual’s incarceration. Effective: 2002.

Rhode Island’s statute meets the best practices standards outlined by the NIST Technical Working Group on Biological Evidence Preservation.

Read the statute.

 

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