# What happens with your law enforcement DNA test?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-with-your-law-enforcement-dna-test/830812>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 9, 2019, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-with-your-law-enforcement-dna-test/830812 "2019-03-09T03:27:27Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 9, 2019, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-with-your-law-enforcement-dna-test/830812/1 "2019-03-09T03:27:27Z")

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1. Say you are a witness or person of interest, but not arrested, in a criminal case and volunteer to take a DNA test.  
What happens to the test results after the test shows that you are clearly not involved in the crime? Are the test results discarded or put in a data base?

2. Same question if you are arrested, but not tried?  
3 .Same question if you are arrested and tried, but are acquitted?

If you are tried and convicted the results definitely go into a data base.