The department may receive, analyze, store, and destroy a record, blood sample, or other specimen for the following purposes:

1. (1) To assist federal, state, or local criminal justice or law enforcement agencies in the investigation or prosecution of sex-related offenses or other offenses in which biological evidence is recovered;
2. (2) In criminal cases, for use in the investigation of an offense, the exclusion or identification of suspects, and the prosecution of the case;
3. (3) To assist in the recovery or identification of human remains from a disaster or for humanitarian purposes;
4. (4) To assist in the identification of living or deceased missing persons; and

5. (5) If personal identifying information is removed:

   1. (A) to establish a population statistics database;
   2. (B) to assist in identification research and protocol development; and
   3. (C) to assist in database or DNA laboratory quality control.

Source Note:The provisions of this §28.22 adopted to be effective June 27, 1996, 21 TexReg 5748.