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U.S. DOJ Seeks to Expand Scope of Fingerprint Record System

Wade-Hahn Chan writes on FCW.com:

The Justice Department is seeking to amend regulations that would broaden the scope of offenses that warrant fingerprint entry into the Fingerprint Identification Records System.

Published in today's Federal Register, the proposed amendment would add nonserious offenses and serious adult and juvenile offenses. Currently, these exclusions are documented only at the state and local levels.

The proposal also states that existing rules for collecting criminal record data applied to administrative purposes when the FBI collected fingerprint data manually. Digital fingerprint readers made the data more mobile and faster to gather.

posted by Fergie @ 9/05/2006 02:56:00 PM