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  2. Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System

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    Fingerprints are voluntarily submitted to the FBI by local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies. These agencies acquire the fingerprints through criminal arrests or from non-criminal sources, such as employment background checks and the US-VISIT program. The FBI then catalogs the fingerprints along with any criminal history linked with ...

  3. Next Generation Identification - Wikipedia

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    Next Generation Identification (NGI) is a project of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The project's goal is to expand the capabilities of the Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS), which is currently used by law enforcement to identify subjects by their fingerprints and to look up their criminal history. The ...

  4. FBI Criminal Justice Information Services Division - Wikipedia

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    Aerial shot of the CJIS building in Clarksburg, West Virginia in 2009 FBI Criminal Justice Information Services Division. The CJIS Division is the largest division of the FBI Science and Technology Branch and is located in a half million square foot main facility on a 986-acre (4.0 km 2) tract in Clarksburg, West Virginia.

  5. Automated fingerprint identification - Wikipedia

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    Automated fingerprint identification is the process of using a computer to match fingerprints against a database of known and unknown prints in the fingerprint identification system. Automated fingerprint identification systems (AFIS) are primarily used by law enforcement agencies for criminal identification purposes, the most important of ...

  6. Criminal records in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The FBI maintains the largest biometric database in the world with the Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS). Criminal submissions from arrests and civil submissions from authorized background checks are stored in IAFIS. Currently, IAFIS has more than 47 million submissions in its repository.

  7. Trump’s team skips FBI background checks for some ... - AOL

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    In addition to the confirmation process, FBI background checks are used to vet nominees for a security clearance, which an attorney general nominee is required to have to do the job.

  8. How Trump can bypass FBI background checks and security ...

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    President-elect allegedly granted clearance to at least 25 people flagged by the FBI as possible dangers to national security in his first term

  9. Live scan - Wikipedia

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    Level 2 background checks are a fingerprint-based criminal background check which includes in-depth investigation of an individual’s criminal history, credit report and other relevant public records, [1] Processed by the FBI's National Crime Information Center (NCIC). In the vast majority of cases, level 2 background checks are required for ...