Federal Bureau of Investigation

Overview

The Federal Bureau of Investigation appears in ICE is collecting DNA from detainees for future policing as the federal law-enforcement institution connected to CODIS, the national DNA database receiving profiles from DHS detainee sampling.

Current Profile

This page’s current role is narrow: the FBI is the destination and database context for DNA profiles collected by DHS and ICE. The episode treats the FBI-linked database as a policing infrastructure layer that can be searched in future criminal investigations.

Key Characteristics

• Federal law-enforcement agency associated with CODIS in the episode.
• Recipient infrastructure for DNA profiles created from DHS detainee samples.
• Part of the policing-search pathway that makes immigration DNA collection durable beyond detention.
• Institutional actor not independently represented in the episode by a detailed defense or response.

Evidence

• Database connection - ICE is collecting DNA from detainees for future policing says DNA profiles created from DHS samples are sent into the FBI’s CODIS database.
• Search function - ICE is collecting DNA from detainees for future policing says CODIS is searched by policing agencies from federal to local levels.
• Missing response boundary - ICE is collecting DNA from detainees for future policing presents Georgetown’s critique without a detailed FBI or DOJ explanation.

Qualifications

The source does not provide a general FBI institutional history or a complete CODIS governance description. The page should not infer FBI policy positions beyond the episode’s database-routing account.

What Changed

• Initial profile adds the FBI as the CODIS-side institution in the DHS/ICE DNA collection branch.

Relationships

• CODIS - FBI-linked DNA database central to the source.
• U.S. Department of Homeland Security - agency sending detainee DNA profiles into the database pathway.
• U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement - immigration-enforcement component tied to sampling.
• Briggs v. Mullen - litigation branch challenging DHS DNA collection.
• Compelled DNA Sampling Fourth Amendment - legal-risk concept arising from the database pathway.