Welcome to the web site for the
Southern California Association of Fingerprint Officers
www.scafo.org
An Association for Scientific Investigation
and Identification Since 1937
This nonprofit organization was founded in 1937 with forty charter members dedicated to the profession of fingerprint identification. This Southern California association has more than 350 members from more than 50 different law enforcement agencies.
On January 1, 1997, this website became operational. Within this site you will find a great deal of information (more than 200 articles) for professionals in the field of fingerprints or "Friction Ridge Identification", law enforcement personnel and administrators, the judiciary, students, and the public in general. This website is dedicated to providing the online community with a credible source of information about a subject that, as professionals, we find fascinating.
Be sure to visit the Welcome section for
recent updates and
website
hints, or use the convenient Home Page
to navigate the common website pages.
SCAFO Members and returning
visitors
should set their web browser to open the SCAFO Home Page as their default home page.
Use the Home Page as a jump point for SCAFO announcements, your frequently used pages in the
SCAFO website, or to surf the net.
Please notify the editor (editor @ scafo.org) of any broken links or errors.
Special
Notice: To prevent the automated collection of email
addresses included on our website,
a space has been added before and after the @ sign.
When
sending emails to our members, please retype the address without
the extra spaces.