Alaska Orders NEC LS 21 Systems; Alaska Picks NEC/Identix Live-Scan Technology.SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 21, 1998--Identix Inc. (ASE (Adaptive Server Enterprise) A relational DBMS from Sybase that runs on Windows NT/2000, Linux and a variety of Unix platforms. ASE is a comprehensive and robust data management product with a long history dating back to the late 1980s. : IDX), a leading provider worldwide of live-scan and biometric verification systems, Wednesday announced that the State of Alaska Department of Public Safety has ordered five LS 21(TM) live-scan workstations under a state-wide contract with Itasca, Ill.-based NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. Technologies Inc. The systems will be used to transmit fingerprint images and demographic data for criminal identification and employee background checks from state agencies to the State Automated Fingerprint Identification System Automated Fingerprint Identification System (or AFIS) is a system to automatically match one or many unknown fingerprints against a database of known prints. This is done for various reasons, not the least of which is because the person has committed a crime. (AFIS). The NEC LS 21 workstation delivered by Identix integrates NEC's AFIS with Identix live-scan technology. The units are being placed at law enforcement agencies A law enforcement agency (LEA) is a term used to describe any agency which enforces the law. This may be a local or state police, federal agencies such as the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) or the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). throughout the state. Identix Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer Randall C. Fowler commented, "Alaska is the tenth state to select Identix live-scan systems for state-wide law enforcement networks, joining California, Maryland, Illinois, Arizona, Texas, Ohio, New Jersey, Georgia and Wisconsin. Many large cities and counties also use a network of Identix TouchPrint 600(TM) live-scan systems for law enforcement, including the New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. Police Department, Cook County (Chicago) Sheriff's Department, Boston Police Department The Boston Police Department (BPD) has the primary responsibility for law enforcement and investigation within the city of Boston, Massachusetts. It is the 20th largest department in the United States and is arguably the oldest police department in the country. and Detroit Police Department The Detroit Police Department serves the city of Detroit, Michigan. The department was founded in 1865 to serve the city's growing population. The department is broken into 6 districts, the central, southwestern, northeastern, western, eastern, and northwestern. . "Law enforcement and other government agencies in 38 states and four foreign countries have installed our live-scan products," Fowler added. Identix Inc. is a leader in designing, developing, manufacturing and marketing products for the capture and/or comparison of fingerprints for security, anti-fraud, law enforcement and other applications. NEC Technologies Inc. is recognized as an industry leader in AFIS systems, latent identifications and large (greater than one million records) networked AFISs. Based in Washington, D.C., NEC Technologies' AFIS Division markets AFIS products for law enforcement and jail management; commercial finger imaging products for vertical markets, including social welfare services, access control, immigration immigration, entrance of a person (an alien) into a new country for the purpose of establishing permanent residence. Motives for immigration, like those for migration generally, are often economic, although religious or political factors may be very important. and motor vehicles; and HealthID(TM) finger imaging products for the healthcare market. The statements in this release that relate to future plans, events or performance are forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties, including risks associated with uncertainties pertaining to customer orders, orders from and contracts with government entities, availability of government funds, demand for products and services, development of markets for the company's products and services and other risks as identified in the company's SEC filings. Actual results, events and performance may differ materially. The company undertakes no obligation to publicly update these forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances that occur after the date hereof or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events. |
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