Fingerprint database could get $10 million upgrade (Secure Communities Program)...The national electronic database of fingerprints, which is missing countless sets of prints taken before 2005, could receive a $10 million infusion of funds to digitize the old prints now sitting in card files around the country..Immigration officials said that many people who were deported before 2005 were fingerprinted the old-fashioned way, with inked fingertips rolled onto a card or sheet, and an unknown number of those prints are not in the electronic database. Now, fingerprints are taken in many local jails and federal facilities by placing a person’s hands on a computer scanning screen, which captures them electronically.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/fingerprint-database-could-get-10-million-upgrade/2011/05/24/AFH8XiAH_story.html
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