Five New Airports Order Identix' Biometric Security Solutions to Conduct Employee Backround Checks
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Five New Airports Order Identix' Biometric Security Solutions to Conduct
Employee Background Checks; SFO Orders Additional Identix Live Scan System
Orders in Addition to 6 New Airports Announced Last Week
LOS GATOS, Calif., Jan. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Identix Incorporated
(Nasdaq: IDNX), the worldwide leader in providing fingerprint biometric
authentication, security, and identification solutions, announced today that
five new airports have selected its Live Scan fingerprint biometric technology
for rapid processing of employee background checks. These five airports are
in addition to the six new airports Identix announced last week. The Company
also said that San Francisco International Airport ordered another Identix
Live Scan TouchPrint(TM) 2000 Applicant Fingerprint Systems (TP 2000 AFS) to
assist SFO in processing its more than 13,000 employees.
Anchorage International Airport has ordered two Identix Live Scan
TouchPrint(TM) 2000 Applicant Fingerprint Systems (TP 2000 AFS). Norman Y.
Mineta San Jose International Airport in California; Piedmont Triad
International Airport in Greensboro, North Carolina; Birmingham International
Airport in Alabama; and Blue Grass Lexington Airport in Kentucky; have each
ordered one Identix TP 2000 AFS to assist the airport in complying with the
Aviation and Transportation Security Act. Installation of the San Jose and
the additional SFO Live Scan systems has taken place. Installation of the
Identix Live Scan systems at the other airports is expected to take place by
the end of January 2002.
These orders follow the signing into law of the Aviation and
Transportation Security Act by President Bush on November 19, 2001, which
requires that every current and prospective airport and airline employee with
access to secure areas undergo a criminal history background check. The
Company believes this requirement applies to the estimated 750,000 total
airport and airline employees in more than 400 airports throughout the nation...
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