A new lawsuit accuses New Jersey’s state health department of providing police with infant blood samples in an effort to identify a suspect in a murder investigation.
The New Jersey Office of the Public Defender (OPD) and the New Jersey Monitor, a nonprofit news site, jointly accused the New Jersey Department of Health (DOH) last month of violating the state’s open records statute and common law.
The suit says DOH would not reveal how often the lab received subpoenas to access its supply of infant DNA and from which law enforcement agencies when the plaintiffs filed records requests.