Secure Communities program rolled out in Georgia

November 18 2009 by Liam Clifford

US immigration have introduced new fingerprinting technology to Georgia, which will bolster law enforcements efforts against criminal immigrants.

US immigration and law enforcement agencies in the state of Georgia
are to receive new technology in order to identify illegal immigrants who are considered to be dangerous criminals.

Law enforcement agents in the counties of Gwinnett, Clayton and DeKalb will be participating in the US immigration initiative named the Secure Communities program.

The program will allow the fingerprints of people arrested to be checked against the FBI criminal history database and the biometric US immigration records kept by Homeland Security.

Up until now the fingerprints were only checked against the Department of Justice’s biometric system.

The new ‘Secure Communities’ technology has now been launched in over 100 jurisdictions and in13 states. Complete coverage of the country is expected by 2013 say US immigration.

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