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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Homeland Security Department began this week testing a fingerprint scanning application in certain airports so it can tap into an FBI database to identify more accurately whether visiting ...

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 ...

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 ...

Connecticut is now one of the first states in the nation with the ability to check fingerprints lifted at a crime scene against the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Integrated Automated Fingerprint ...

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 ...