California Department of Justice Orders More Than 90 NEC LS 21 systems; Department of Corrections Orders 12 Systems; Orders Valued in Excess of $4.1 Million.SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 16, 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 (IDX Systems Corporation, South Burlington, VT, www.idx.com) One of the largest health care information systems companies in the country, acquired in 2006 by GE Healthcare (www.gehealthcare.com), a unit of the General Electric Company. ), a leading provider worldwide of live-scan and biometric verification systems, Thursday announced that the Bureau of Criminal Identification and Information (BCII BCII Battle Command and Intelligence Integration ) of the California Attorney General's Office has ordered more than 90 live-scan workstations. The BCII order is valued in excess of $3.5 million. The company also announced that the California Department of Corrections (CDC See Control Data, century date change and Back Orifice. CDC - Control Data Corporation ) has ordered 12 of the live-scan workstations, valued in excess of $600,000. The 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. LS 21(TM) workstation delivered by Identix integrates NEC's proprietary 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 AFIS Automated Fingerprint Identification System AFIS Aerodrome Flight Information Service AFIS Armed Forces Radio and Television Service AFIS Airborne Flight Information System AFIS Automated Fingerprinting Identification System (Pakistan) ) with Identix Live-Scan technology. The systems will be used to transmit fingerprint cards for criminal identification and employee background checks from local agencies to the Department of Justice. The BCII units, which were shipped in the quarters ended March 31, 1998 and June 30, 1998, 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). and county offices of education in 47 counties. The CDC units will be placed at inmate reception centers. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. BCII Assistant Chief Gary Cooper: "Live-scan creates an electronic interface with our AFIS database in Sacramento, processes arrest information and responds to the requesting law enforcement agency Noun 1. law enforcement agency - an agency responsible for insuring obedience to the laws FBI, Federal Bureau of Investigation - a federal law enforcement agency that is the principal investigative arm of the Department of Justice with an identification within two hours. The arrest information is also electronically transmitted to the FBI. "The combined Identix and NEC technology has cut our processing time by more than 80 percent," Cooper said. "We are continuing to identify additional areas to implement the live-scan systems." Identix Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer Randall C. Fowler commented: "We have made more biometric identification installations worldwide than any other company and have been a major supplier of biometric technology to the State of California for many years. In addition, we are the preferred provider of biometric identification installations in Maryland, Washington, Arizona, Texas, New York Texas is a hamlet in Oswego County, New York, USA, near the southeastern corner of Lake Ontario. It is officially part of the town of Mexico. Geography Texas lies on Little Salmon Creek, about one-half mile above the mouth of that stream on Lake Ontario, on an east-west , Ohio, New Jersey and Georgia. "The large amount of business we have done with the Department of Justice demonstrates their confidence in our biometric identification systems," he said. "We look forward to continuing this relationship, as well as the relationships we have established with other California agencies such as the Department of Corrections. "These latest orders," Fowler continued, "combined with the recently announced orders from California Department of Corrections prison facilities for our Touchlock II(TM) single-finger biometric verification readers and Bio Sentinel(TM) networking software for physical access control applications, are a further indication of our technology's proven performance on the front lines." Identix 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 is recognized as the 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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