proposed national plan for flat fingerprint based applicant background checks

1. Proposed National Plan for Flat Fingerprint Based Applicant Background Checks James Loudermilk January 24, 2001

3. Protection of Vulnerable Persons Criminal history background checks are essential, and required/authorized in federal law, for: Child Protection Schools, Day Care, Sports, Scouting, etc. Senior Citizen Protection Eldercare Facilities, Volunteers Occupation Background Checks Airports, Banks, Health Care, etc. Naturalization Background Checks Firearm Dealer Licensing

4. Two Camps on Civil Identification

5. Historical FBI Position on Search Prints

7. Fingerprinting: A Brief History Alphonse Bertillon develops identification system based on body measurements ... Bertillon system Fingerprints begin to be recognized as unique means of identification The West Case at Leavenworth Penitentiary ... value of fingerprints demonstrated Fingerprint Bureau established at Leavenworth Penitentiary FBI Identification Division established (now the CJIS Division FBI Latent Fingerprint Section established

10. Development of Identification Automated Services (IDAS) System 1982 - 1989 Integrates AIS - II (name searching) and ATS (fingerprint searching) Incorporates Automated Document Transport System Designed to handle 59,000 documents per day Reduces turn around time to 18 hours for 95% of the fingerprint cards

11. IDAS Identification Cycle

12. This slide shows transmission from a local booking station to IAFIS via the State CTA. Unfortunately, many states do not yet have their intra-state networks established, so cards are mailed from the local jurisdiction to the state and transmitted from the state to the FBI.This slide shows transmission from a local booking station to IAFIS via the State CTA. Unfortunately, many states do not yet have their intra-state networks established, so cards are mailed from the local jurisdiction to the state and transmitted from the state to the FBI.

13. Segments of Civil User Community Not Satisfied

14. Problem - Civil Name Check Only Interstate Identification Index Name Check Efficacy - July 1999 False Positives (5%) and Negatives (1%) occur when a name check alone is conducted

15. The Ohio System 4 Finger Check 2 Thumbs 2 Index At an estimated cost of $2.1 million each WebCheck station costs $2700 135 sites currently plans to expand to 337 responses back to point of entry from state system in under 2 hours

16. Information is captured from Driver’s License by means of a swipe - magnetic encoding Eliminates the need of most of the data entry The Ohio System

17. Response to Legitimate Cost and Timeliness Concerns

19. Factors

20. Expensive biographic data entry and fingerprint image capture station Estimated installed cost ? $40,000/unit Problem - Current 10 Print Requirement

21. Problem - Current 10 Print Requirement Substantial amount of time to prepare the fingerprint card each subject takes about 7 minutes to fingerprint and to capture the necessary data

22. States and TerritoriesSubmitting Electronically to IAFIS

23. Cumulative Dispositions

24. Current Situation Requiring a ten-print for a civil background check is time consuming and costly Many states and other entities conduct background checks by name only AZ, IA, KY, MA, MS, NH, PA, RI, VI, DC

26. Proposal Rapidly and inexpensively capture a full set of fingerprints at point of service thumbs 4 fingers/each hand End-to-end electronic processing Waiting time for response comparable to other public benefits Timely interpretation of criminal history and determination if disqualifying

27. State and Federal Level Queries The need exists to conduct a fingerprint supported background check via individual States Then a check needs to be run at the Federal level

28. AFIS States

30. Constraints

32. More Work Needed