New York FY24 NCHIP

The New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS) will continue their livescan equipment purchasing project to support local law enforcement agencies throughout New York State during unexpected events. These unexpected events disrupt fingerprint transmissions to the State and Federal repositories for reasons that are outside the control of the contributors. Often, the contributors either stop fingerprinting, or fall back on ink-and-roll printing on hard cards that need to be mailed and processed manually by the State Identification Bureau. To prevent this, DCJS is requesting funding to secure mobile tablets that may be configured and deployed to agencies for such disaster events. This proposal also includes additional Statewide Automated Biometric Identification Systems (SABIS) workstations for the purposes of improved maintenance and synchronization of fingerprints between NY and the Next Generation Identification System (NGI). Currently, DCJS Identification examiners share access to SABIS workstations. This restriction limits the time available to examiners to perform identification tasks that result in record updates.