Police agencies in King County rely on a regional database containing fingerprints of nearly 1 million individuals to help solve crimes and identify people.

The Regional Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS) Levy, known as Proposition No. 1, would fund the continued operation of the AFIS system to provide enhanced forensic fingerprint and ...

searches were also conducted on National Automated Fingerprint Identification System (NAFIS) and Automated Multi-Modal Biometric Identification System (AMBIS) and all did not match with any of the ...

The recently filed charge sheet—spanning over 1600 pages—in the Saif Ali Khan attack case by Bandra police confirms mid-day’s exclusive report published on January 26. As reported, crucial ...

Why it matters: The Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS) is used by all King County cities and unincorporated areas, storing nearly 3 million records that can be matched to incoming ...

NBC6 The fingerprint was run through the Automated Fingerprint Identification System during a 2023 cold case review of one of the city’s longest unsolved murders, cops said. It came through as a ...

A familiar tax levy is on the ballot, which funds the county’s Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS). The system is used by every law enforcement agency in the county.

Mauricio Maldonado is a digital editor for CBS Miami and has been a digital journalist in the South Florida area since 1997. Mauricio started at the Miami Herald in 1990 and transitioned over to ...

A “career criminal” has been arrested in the nearly 40-year-old cold-case murder of a Florida real estate broker based on fingerprint evidence that was poverlooked at the time, authorities said.