Biometric Intelligence & Identification Technologies has announced it has been awarded a contract with the Massachusetts Sheriffs’ Association (MSA) for providing facial recognition systems to each county’s sheriff’s department as well as a number of individual police departments in the state. The systems BI2 will be providing were created by Animetrics, a New Hampshire-based facial […]

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkey has selected Gemalto to provide its Coesys issuance solution for the personalization of new electronic passports for Turkish citizens. Gemalto’s Coesys solution combines software, hardware and integration services designed to enable governments to personalize secure documents like e-passport, health care or ID cards. Gemalto deployed […]

Victoria, a southeast state in Australia, is about to launch a face recognition system called iFace to assist its law enforcement personnel in apprehending wanted people. But experts warn that the technology is not yet advanced enough to be used as evidence in court, according to an IT Wire article. One such expert, senior photographic […]

Crimtrac, an agency in the Australian government set to help find ways technology can support law enforcement in solving crimes in the country, has suggested tying fingerprints to passports for the nation’s citizens to help improve name only-based background checks, according to a Network World article. Crimtrac manager of background checking, Roberta Kennett, has said […]

The Lockheed Martin-led Next Generation Identification (NGI) team is starting to fully develop and deploy a new system capability that transforms how law enforcement officials search an FBI wanted persons database. Development efforts began after a successful Critical Design Review for the system’s second phase, also known as Increment 2: Repository for Individuals of Special […]

HID Global has announced it will showcase its latest advances and offerings in physical access, logical access and secure issuance solutions at this week’s IFSEC Global Security Conference and Exposition. In addition to demonstrating its portfolio of products and previewing new solutions, Volker Kunz, HID Global’s director of sales, Continental Europe, Identity and Access Management, […]

ActivIdentity Corp., a provider of strong authentication and credential management, announced that the National Policing Improving Agency (NPIA) in the United Kingdom has procured 250,000 licenses of its ActivIdentity ActivID Card Management System and ActivIdentity ActivClient security software to issue digital credentials to members of the country’s police forces. The ActivIdentity solution has been selected […]

Lawyers have filed suit seeking records from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) about their Secure Communities program, according to an El Paso Times article. The suit was filed by the Center for Constitutional Rights, a New York-based organization that intends to help guarantee rights promised by the U.S. Constitution and the Universal Declaration […]

There are varying reports on whether immigration reform will be discussed in Congress in 2010, but if it is addressed one aspect that will likely be included is a biometric Social Security card for employment verification. Dubbed Biometric Enrollment, Locally-stored Information, and Electronic Verification of Employment, or BELIEVE, the card would be required to verify […]

Bio-key International, a provider of biometric solutions, has announced it has successfully deployed more than 400 FBI compliant, mobile, two-factor authentication devices to the Oklahoma County Sheriff’s Office. The system is designed for use with law enforcement mobile data system users so that they can access the FBI Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) databases with […]