California Newborn DNA Database Shocks Parents

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — DNA in the spotlight, cracking cold cases but questions are being raised after the state spent decades collecting the DNA of infants, without parents realizing it.
California has been collecting newborn blood samples since 1983.
Many parents were shocked to hear their children’s blood is being stored in a state database, and possibly even sold to outside researchers.  Pricking the toes newborns, to test their blood for certain disorders.  The remai