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Traffic violators to give fingerprints as part of pilot program "Starting today, motorists ticketed by sheriff's deputies in the southwest Valley will be asked to offer a fingerprint" Source: http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0203fingerprint03-ON.html

WASHINGTON -- Software salesman Shadab Aziz of Houston was preparing recently to catch the first flight on his long journey to Saudi Arabia for the hajj, the pilgrimage to Mecca expected at least once in a lifetime of all able Muslims. But his mind was partly on what could happen when he returned to the United States. A U.S. citizen, Aziz wondered if American border officials would make him provide his fingerprints before allowing him to re-enter the country. That had been the case weeks earlier for a group of Muslim-Americans returning from an Islamic conference in Toronto. "My concern...

ANN has learned that a small number (so far) of our elected officials are looking at additional security measures that may affect pilots all over the US. New security initiatives are being designed to "register, finger-print and conduct background checks" on a number of persons performing as "Primary Transportation Personnel." Mind you, for the moment, all this is rumor... but rumors we've gotten from uncommonly good sources (who have been unerringly accurate, in the past) and who have promised more detail as soon as it develops. The basis for the current concern is an extensive registration program that would involve...

<p>April 2 (Bloomberg) -- Travelers from western European nations and Japan will be added in September to the list of foreign visitors fingerprinted and photographed upon arrival in the U.S., the State Department said.</p> <p>The extension is designed to address security concerns stemming from a U.S. agreement last month to delay for two years a new passport requirement for visitors from 27 countries, mostly in Europe, who are allowed to enter the U.S. without visas, State Department spokesman Adam Ereli said.</p>

All Britons arriving in the United States will be fingerprinted and have their photographs taken, as Washington warned of a new terror threat. Currently only Britons with visas have to go through the procedure on arrival in the US. But under the new system, which takes effect on September 30, tourists who do not need visas to enter the country will also be digitally fingerprinted and photographed. The change was announced by the Department of Homeland Security as security officials warned terrorists could attempt a Madrid-style bombing in the US. The FBI and Department of Homeland Security said in a...

WASHINGTON - The Bush administration backed off plans to require that millions of visa-carrying Mexicans who make short visits to America and stay close to the border be fingerprinted and photographed to get into the country. Asa Hutchinson, the Homeland Security department's undersecretary for border and transportation, was to publicly announce the policy change at a Capitol Hill hearing Thursday, a congressional official who was briefed on the plan told The Associated Press. The move, a concession to Mexican President Vicente Fox , comes on the eve of his visit to President Bush's ranch in Crawford, Texas. Mexicans who have...

Poke around the Polish bakeries, liquor stores and beauty shops of Milwaukee Avenue all you want. Chances are, you won't find a terrorist. You'll find a kid with an expired student visa who sleeps on his cousin's couch all day. She tells him to get a job or go home. You'll find a waitress who's afraid of getting caught for not reporting all of her tips on her 1040-EZ form. As if there's a waitress in town who does. But a terrorist? Not unless you mean the occasional building inspector. "I always dreamed about coming to this country," said Joseph...

WARSAW (Reuters) - The mayor of Warsaw said on Tuesday he would cancel a visit to the United States in protest at the U.S. policy of fingerprinting visitors as part of new anti-terror measures. Lech Kaczynski, a former anti-communist activist who now leads a major right-wing party, was supposed to pay a visit in April to Chicago and New York, both home to large Polish communities. "I will go only when there will be no need for taking pictures and fingerprinting," Kaczynski told reporters. Poland had hoped that as a reward for its help in the war to topple Iraqi...

Nations Exempt from U.S. Fingerprinting Rule Citizens from 27 countries can travel to the United States without a visa and are exempt from being fingerprinted and photographed at US airports and seaports under a new anti-terrorism programme the Homeland Security Department launched today. Those foreigners can enter the United States with passports for business or pleasure for up to 90 days. To travel for other purposes or to stay longer, they must have a visa and would be subject to the checks for other arriving foreigners under the new US-VISIT program. The countries are: Andorra, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brunei, Denmark,...

DUBAI: The US embassy in Abu Dhabi has become the first American mission in the region to start fingerprinting visa applicants from November 2, in a move in line with its government's global security measures. The State Department began collecting fingerprints of visa applicants at the embassy of the United States in Brussels on September 22, at the US Consulate in Frankfurt on September 24 and at the US embassies in San Salvador and Guatemala on September 29. The US embassy in the UAE capital has installed electronic scanners at its visa application counters to take applicants' fingerprints. "To facilitate...

Akron students will be fingerprinted beginning this fall to identify them in school lunch lines. After a lengthy debate, school board members voted 5-2 Tuesday to spend $700,000 on a controversial, modernized cafeteria system. Board members Rebecca Heimbaugh and Mary Stormer voted ``no,'' mirroring the concerns of parents about the cost and privacy issue involved with fingerprinting students. ``I do not believe that any parent or any student has ever had the expectation that in order to go through the lunch line or to buy a cookie or carton of milk that they or their children would be requested to...

  New tagging technique for bullets shoots holes in "fingerprinting" Embedded microembossing technology marks cartridge casings as they are ejected from the firearm. Ballistic fingerprinting has its critics. Used for years, it involves analyzing the unique markings of fired bullets and empty shell casings and then matching them to specific firearms. Proponents say ballistic studies help law officers match guns with crime-scene evidence. Critics, on the other hand, claim the technique is just a way to register and eventually confiscate all lawfully owned handguns. They also say ballistic markings can be easily altered, essentially making the "fingerprints" useless.One company...

Austrian Handgun Maker Glock's Top U.S. Official ResignsFriday February 21, 1:59 PM Austrian handgun maker Glock GmbH parted ways with its top U.S. official this week, at a critical moment for the gun industry, Friday's Wall Street Journal reported. Paul Jannuzzo, a senior executive with the gun maker's U.S. unit, confirmed he stepped down Monday as chief operating officer and general counsel at Glock Inc. He has stirred controversy within gun circles because of his support for greater use of computer systems that can match bullets and shell casings to the guns that fired them. Mr. Jannuzzo had been one...

Austrian handgun maker Glock GmbH parted ways with its top U.S. official this week, at a critical moment for the gun industry. Paul Jannuzzo, a senior executive with the gun maker's U.S. unit, confirmed he stepped down Monday as chief operating officer and general counsel at Glock Inc. He has stirred controversy within gun circles because of his support for greater use of computer systems that can match bullets and shell casings to the guns that fired them. Mr. Jannuzzo had been one of the industry's most senior in-house lawyers and helped to shape strategy in defending against dozens of...

I didn't watch 60 minutes tonight, but according to several folks who did watch, one of the Vice Presidents of Glock stated he supports ballistic fingerprinting on a national level. If true, this is a total sellout of gun owners in America.

<p>Two al Qaeda suspects were taken into custody as they tried to enter the United States after their fingerprints were matched with ones lifted by U.S. military officials from documents found in caves in Afghanistan, law-enforcement authorities said yesterday.</p> <p>The two men are among 330 aliens apprehended at the border since September as presumed law-enforcement threats, as part of a federal program known as the National Security Entry-Exit Registration System — a fingerprinting system that matches foreign visitors against databases of known criminals and terrorists.</p>

Those seeking asylum in Europe will now face a further hurdle thanks to a new fingerprinting system being implemented throughout the European Union, Norway and Iceland. From now on, all asylum seekers over the age of 14 will be fingerprinted in the country where they make their application for asylum and checked against a centralised database. EU officials say that the system will help combat so-called "asylum shopping", whereby people make numerous asylum applications as they seek out the country offering the best conditions. But civil liberties groups have attacked the plan, saying that the measures contribute to the idea...

Governing Magazine/January 2003 POTOMAC CHRONICLE FEAR OF FINGERPRINTING There's a form of gun regulation that could save thousands of lives ayear. If we weren't so paranoid, we'd adopt it. By Jonathan Walters What's always impressed me about the opponents of gun regulation is their amazing ability to change the subject and play off Americans'deep-seated fear of government itself. They can make tens of millions of us believe that federal, state or local officials are liable to go fascist, requiring vigilant citizens to bring out the six-shooter and hold off their mayor/governor/senator as he/she tries to consolidate his/her power base by...

Gun Land: Overview from the Producer President Bush will soon put his signature on the Homeland Security Bill. And that will set into motion new government efforts that will eventually ask all of us to sacrifice in the fight against terrorism. How big a sacrifice? Conservative columnist William Safire painted a startling picture this week in THE NEW YORK TIMES. He warns that the bill could mean the creation of a vast government dossier — with total information on every U.S citizen including every credit card purchase, medical prescription, bank deposit, web click...and much more. But a double standard has...

<p>Washington's Beltway sniper has local politicians scrambling to gain advantage by appearing tough on guns. Take Montgomery County, Md., where most of the carnage has taken place. Two candidates for Congress, one a Democrat, the other Republican, each brag that they're more despised by the National Rifle Assn. than the other.</p>