DENVER (AP) -- A crime fighting tool that has raised privacy concerns has been fully implemented in Colorado.
Under Colorado's so-called Katie's Law, DNA samples are collected from suspected felons when they're arrested. Previously only people who were convicted of a crime had to submit a sample.
Colorado lawmakers changed the law last year and the state began collecting DNA from anyone arrested in late September. The samples are run against a database of the state's unsolved crimes.
Officials said Wednesday that nearly 10,000 DNA samples have been added to the database so far. Forty have been matched to crimes ranging from sexual assault to burglary.
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