Evidence Preservation in Iowa

State statute requires that all DNA evidence be preserved for criminal actions. The evidence must be preserved by a criminal or juvenile justice agency for a period of three years. Effective: 2005. Amended most recently: 2014.

Iowa’s statute does NOT meet the best practices standards outlined by the NIST Technical Working Group on Biological Evidence Preservation.

Read the statute.

 

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