Saturday, September 09, 2006

Post 9/11: Five Years Of IT Promise And Failure Larry Greenemeier / Information Week, 8 Sep 2006

http://digbig.com/4mtde
"In a move to improve access and information sharing among immigration and law enforcement officials, Homeland Security announced it has launched the first phase of a proposed three-phase program to promote interoperability between the U.S. Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology (US-Visit) program's Ident database and the FBI's Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System database. The goal is to provide state and local law enforcement officials with access to immigration history based on biometric and biographic information through a single biometric submission to these databases. Subsequent phases will increase the amount of data that Homeland Security and Justice exchange and provide law enforcement and immigration officials with a complete view of a person's criminal and immigration history."