This portion of the National Conference of State Legislatures website includes several charts, issue briefs, and articles about postconviction DNA policy, including charts that provide state-by-state information about DNA databases and postconviction motions. A chart on another section of the NCSL website, Forensic Science Database: Search by State (http://www.ncsl.org/research/civil-and-criminal-justice/dna-database-search-by-state.aspx), provides state-by-state information regarding postconviction DNA analysis.

Postconviction Testing of DNA Evidence, an NIJ grant-funded program, provides funding to states to help defray the costs associated with postconviction DNA testing. The website contains a list of exonerations resulting from state grantees' use of NIJ postconvction DNA analysis funding.

DNA Resource is a website devoted to keeping up-to-date with the latest developments in forensic DNA policy, and offers a monthly report to that effect. It has a section on United States DNA legislation, which tracks what states have made changes or additions to their DNA legislation. The site also provides a chart of changes in state postconviction DNA legislation. Site sponsors are Applied Biosystems and Gordon Thomas Honeywell Government Affairs.

This Innocence Project web page discusses postconviction DNA access throughout the 50 states and identifies those states that do not provide such access. It discusses the key elements that should be included in a DNA access law, shortcomings of existing DNA access laws, and a map that links to the text of DNA statutes in the various states. The Innocence Project also has related information on postconviction DNA exonerations (https://www.innocenceproject.org/dna-exonerations-in-the-united-states/), preservation of evidence (https://www.innocenceproject.org/preservation-of-evidence/), and compensation for the wrongly convicted (https://www.innocenceproject.org/compensating-wrongly-convicted/).

This portion of the NACDL website provides links to information about DNA databases and postconviction testing resources, including fact sheets, endorsements and resolutions, model legislation, state legislation, reports and audits, law review and journal articles, media coverage, and other links. The media page includes links to newspaper articles about state DNA and postconviction DNA testing.

According to the ABA Criminal Justice Section, "For forty years, the ABA Criminal Justice Standards have guided policymakers and practitioners working in the criminal justice arena. When the initial volumes were issued in 1968, Chief Justice Warren Burger described the Standards project as 'the single most comprehensive and probably the most monumental undertaking in the field of criminal justice ever attempted by the American legal profession in our national history.'" (https://www.americanbar.org/groups/criminal_justice/standards/). The ABA Standards on DNA Evidence include Standard 6.1, specifically referring to postconviction testing.

This 32-page policy review, published in 2008, "offers recommendations and solutions to expand access to post-conviction DNA testing. [It] provides an overview of problems with current post-conviction DNA testing laws, offers solutions to these problems, profiles cases of injustice, highlights states with good laws and policies for DNA testing, and includes a model policy."

This 131-page report was published in 1999 by the National Institute of Justice (NIJ). According to NIJ, "The way DNA evidence is collected, preserved, and tested is critical to the success of its use in criminal cases. Postconviction DNA Testing: Recommendations for Handling Requests examines legal and biological issues applied to DNA technology in the appeals process while recognizing the value of finality in the criminal justice system. This NIJ Issues and Practices document suggests recommendations for prosecutors, defense counsels, courts, victims' advocates, and laboratory personnel when receiving requests for postconviction DNA testing to maximize the future benefits and use of DNA in postconviction proceedings."

This annotated bibliography by Deborah Sulzbach was published in Legal Reference Services Quarterly, Vol. 25(1), 2006. Directed toward attorneys, librarians, students, and others with an interest in the topic, the bibliography first provides an introduction to the use of postconviction DNA evidence, then presents an annotated bibliography of related literature divided into personal stories, state specific articles, the Innocence Protection Act, Innocence Projects, miscellaneous articles, and books.