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FBI Expanding Access to Fingerprint Database

Jason Miller writes on FCW.com:

The FBI is ready to move out of the test stage in sharing fingerprint data with other agencies.

Tom Bush, assistant director at the bureau’s Criminal Justice Information Service (CJIS) office, today said the FBI is going forward on all fronts to extend access to its Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS) database to the Defense, Homeland Security and State departments.

Bush, who spoke at a lunch in Washington sponsored by the Industry Advisory Council, said civilian agencies account for about 54 percent of the checks against IAFIS. He also said with the interoperability success, CJIS hopes to expand the intelligence community’s use of the databases.

posted by Fergie @ 8/22/2007 05:37:00 PM