The NYPD’s high-tech fingerprint database was temporarily brought down by a bumbling contractor with a virus-infected mini computer, The Post has learned. A contractor was setting up a digital display ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Until recently, New York City police secretly kept fingerprints of children arrested as juveniles on file permanently in a department database — an illegal practice that has raised ...

A federal database that uses the fingerprints of convicted criminals to establish immigration status and determine criminal history went into effect this week in Washoe County, the first Nevada ...

He is an illegal immigrant with at least eight aliases and an arrest record in California that includes attempted murder, robbery, theft, drugs and exhibiting a firearm. Yet if Andres Maldonado Nava ...

Until recently, New York City police secretly kept fingerprints of children arrested as juveniles on file permanently in a department database — an illegal practice that has raised alarms about the ...

The effectiveness of DNA testing and searches of the national DNA database is well-known. Over the last three decades, 137 wrongly convicted people were exonerated through DNA database “hits,” which ...

At the Portland Police Bureau's North Precinct, Officer Jason Hubert is getting ready to fire a confiscated handgun into a thick metal bullet trap filled a thick sludge called snake oil. He's about to ...

WASHINGTON — More than three years after the Sept. 11 attacks, the Bush administration has failed to create a unified U.S. fingerprint database because of agency infighting, meaning most visitors to ...

Question: Since when does the DMV fingerprint us to get our license? I don’t remember doing this the last time I renewed (8 ...

A publicly accessible database exposed the fingerprints and facial recognition information of millions, thrusting biometrics security into the spotlight once again. Researchers discovered the personal ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. TOPEKA (KSNT) – The Kansas Bureau of Investigation (KBI) announced it has finished a nearly $6.9 million overhaul of the state’s ...