Dennis,
The problems that the INS had with the FBI rejecting a load of fingerprint cards goes back at least a year.....I remember reading about stacks of cards found in a secretary's desk.....I guess there were more. You can imagine the trouble it would be to go back and try to re-print all those people.....what a mess.....One of the advantages of using machines like IDX's is that the machine will not take a "bad" print. Ink and rolling has many disadvantages, smudged prints is only one.
Anyhow, the INS is working on the problem and has been for some time......In fact, let me transcribe this for you.....It is not on the net.
PRESS RELEASE... August 6, 1996
Identix Receives Added Orders From INS For Border, Port Screening System Componants
SUNNYVALE, CA (August 6, 1996).....Identix Inc (ASE:IDX), a leader worldwide in live-scan systems for law enforcement and biometric verification systems, announced today that the Company has received additional orders for it's TouchView system from the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), which uses the technology as an integral part of the agency's border traffic IDENT screening system. The INS intends to expand the IDENT system, now in place with 120 TouchView units at 70 agency locations, to what will ultimately be multiple installations at each of its 500 border, ports-of-entry and other offices.........
It goes on, but this is the heart of it.
For more very interesting reading about "the government and fingerprinting"......go to the site below and try not to fall asleep! Please note the "Planned Applications" section.
vitro.bloomington.in.us:8080/~BC/REPORTS/CTSTG96/
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