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 ...

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 ...

Columns share an author's personal perspective and are often based on facts in the newspaper's reporting. The effectiveness of DNA testing and searches of the national DNA database is well-known. Over ...

The NYPD has purged an illegal database of youth fingerprints following years of delays, officials confirmed Wednesday. The Legal Aid Society challenged the NYPD practice of holding onto the records ...

TOPEKA (KSNT) – The Kansas Bureau of Investigation (KBI) announced it has finished a nearly $6.9 million overhaul of the state’s fingerprinting database. The system, called the Automatic Biometric ...