Pulled over in Kansas? Get ready to show your license, registration — and fingerprints

Kansas City Star ^ | 3/22/06 | BENITA Y. WILLIAMS

[Rebelbase]

This should fill the gap until the chip implants are mandatory.

[Orlando]

It's like the 1930's in Nazi Germany.

"PAPERS"

[Pablo64]

Like I even needed another reason not to go to Kansas.
(Sorry, Kansas FReepers)

[DoughtyOne]

Prints scanned in the field will not be stored.

Anyone believing this should check themselves into protective custody, before they seriously injure themselves.

[beltfed308]

The first phase was funded with a $752,000 homeland security grant

And on another thread NYC is getting 500 cameras with millions in grant funds. Add this up around the country and it is a good chunk of change.

[A Balrog of Morgoth]

Calm down everybody. This only happens to you if you respond to the officer in English.

[Windsong]

Wonder if Fred Phelps will protest?

Nahh

[hattend]

Notice it says the prints taken in the field will not be stored. Yet, the prints are wired in and are stored on a database.

I guess in newspeak, a database is not a storage medium.

[NeonKnight]

it is a statewide database of more than 10 million fingerprints taken from people arrested in Kansas.

Not bad for a state boasting a total population of about 2.2 million.

[moehoward]

Exactly. If you have a valid license, this seems an unnecessary intrusion. If it weeds out Illegals, I'm all for it. I'm quite sure it will not be used for anything that productive though.

[Cboldt]

Prints scanned in the field will not be stored.

I call bullshit on that one.

[weegee]

Called the Automatic Fingerprint Identification System, it is a statewide database of more than 10 million fingerprints taken from people arrested in Kansas.

And if you aren't in the database already, you will be...

Texas has already made it a requirement of DL renewal to submit fingerprints.

The Keystone Kops still can't catch the crack dealers up the street.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Ear lobe implants, anyone ?

[A Balrog of Morgoth]

It seems like a lot more money and effort is put into identifying and successfully prosecuting routine traffic violations then crimes involving identity theft and credit card fraud.

[Tucson_AZ]

"Prints scanned in the field will not be stored."

Yeah, right.

[DumpsterDiver]

The first phase was funded with a $752,000 homeland security absurdity grant (also known as the taxpayers' money)

[weegee]

Easier to get scofflaws to pay their taxes, er fines, than to prosecute criminals.

[beltfed308]

It seems like a lot more money and effort is put into identifying and successfully prosecuting routine traffic violations then crimes involving identity theft and credit card fraud.

Revenue is the driving force on all these schemes as well as cataloging citizens.

[reagan_fanatic]

It's like the 1930's in Nazi Germany. "PAPERS"

"Your papers are ... not in order..."

[Kaylee Frye]

I saw this while on a tour of a Melbourne defense contractor about 3 years ago. They were saying that it would be in police cars all across the country eventually. Guess they were right.