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Sheriff's Office Receives Technology Upgrade

02/21/2012

The Lawrence County Sheriff's Office has recently upgraded its Biometric inmate booking system.  The newest phase includes being able to submit photos for facial recognition.

Over the last couple of years, the Sheriff's Office has been upgrading technology that will allow quicker processing of inmates as well as speedier identification of crime suspects.  The first phase was adding "Live Scan" technology which took digital fingerprints that were submitted to local, state, and national databases allowing the Sheriff's Office to quickly identify unknown persons.

The second phase was the addition of "Iris Scan" technology.  This technology allowed the photographing of the iris of inmates which was then placed into the same data base that even more accurately than fingerprinting allowed for the identification of inmates and suspects.

Shortly after that, collection of DNA from inmates on certain offenses began.

The newest phase is that photos of inmates are being collected by a camera to be used in facial recognition technology.  Photos are now taken and submitted to a database in Jefferson City which can be used to recognize people by facial features. 

The newest upgrade is apparent on the Sheriff's Office website by the new format that photos are appearing.  These photos are now all uniform and for a specific purpose.

It is the hope that with this technology, crimes can be more readily and quickly solved.