Automation helping FBI manage national fingerprint database

Published: Jan. 28, 2020, 5 a.m.

b'When new civilian federal employees submit a fingerprint as part of their background check it goes to the FBI\\u2019s Criminal Justice Information Services Division for checking it against its national database of criminal fingerprints. But the bureau also gets nearly 200,000 other fingerprint submissions a day. Automation tools have helped. Gary Stroupe is a CJIS supervisory program analyst in the Biometric Identification and Analysis Unit of CJIS. He told Federal News Network\\u2019s Jory Heckman how it frees up employee time. Hear more on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'