CASE STUDY

Florida Law Enforcement Digitizes Fingerprint Records

Florida Law Enforcement digitizes fingerprint records to improve accuracy and reliability.

Florida Law Enforcement improves accuracy and reliability by taking fingerprint records digital

Industry: Public Works

Location: Florida

Docufree Services
Digital Transformation
Document Scanning

Docufree digitizes over 24 million fingerprint records on microfilm

Law enforcement officers need fingerprints from a crime scene to link a suspect to a crime. Investigators at FDLE had to manually search through catalogs of microfilm to find a suspect’s fingerprint records, a time-consuming process that slowed investigations. Digitizing fingerprint records requires a high-level of expertise, precision, and quality. FDLE turned to Docufree for a solution to help modernize their approach.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) sets forth stringent specifications for the quality and security in digitizing fingerprint records. A quality assurance process was set up as part of the solution and monitoring software was implemented to track each record during imaging, safeguarding integrity and providing chain-of-custody documentation. More than 24 million digital fingerprint records were made accessible in the Department’s system of record.

Forensic technicians can quickly scan millions of fingerprints in a matter of minutes, expediting the screening process for weapon permits, childcare employment, and more.

The value delivered for FDLE? Digitizing the fingerprint records accelerates the retrieval of records. Forensic technicians can quickly scan millions of fingerprints in a matter of minutes, expediting the screening process for weapon permits, childcare employment, and more. Law enforcement is also able to reconcile data against Department data and across multiple indexes, ensuring accuracy and improving information reliability.

Project Summary

Challenges:

Manual searches through microfilm records were time-consuming
Digitizing fingerprints requires high level of expertise and security to meet FBI standards

Solution:

Go digital, with high-security, high-quality digitization of over 24M fingerprint records

Results:

Improved access to records for faster, more accurate investigation
Integrated with line of business application for seamless access