Administering Entity
Guam Police Department
Recent/Pending Legislation
- No recent DNA-specific bill located in the 37th–38th Legislatures (Guam Legislature – Bills).
Core DNA database law: No stand-alone DNA database statute. Guam’s only mandatory-collection provision is embedded in its Sex Offender Registration Act, 9 GCA Chapter 89.
Arrestee: No law.
Convicted Offender: Yes, but narrow. Under 9 GCA § 89.03(c), anyone convicted of a criminal sexual conduct offense or a crime against a minor must provide a biological sample to the Guam Police Department for DNA typing. There is no all-felony mandate and no misdemeanor (non-sex) mandate.
CODIS entry & administering entity: GPD collects and must submit samples to the FBI within 24 hours for CODIS entry (9 GCA § 89.08(d)); failure to provide a sample is itself a third-degree felony. Guam is not an NDIS participant (FBI Fact Sheet). Guam historically had no crime lab and sent samples off-island; the GPD Gregorio G. Perez Crime Lab opened in January 2023 (U.S. Department of the Interior-funded) to enable on-island analysis.
- No law or published policy identified.
- No statute or stated agency policy identified.
- No statute, audit, or tracking mandate. Guam does not appear as a SAKI grantee (BJA SAKI).
- No CODIS-hit reporting or transparency requirement in the Guam Code.