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Funding Lost for Upgrade (The following article was published in the Oct. `95 Riverside CAL--ID News) By LT. JOHN HORTON Riverside CAL--ID learned the last week of September that the funding for Senate Bill 527 was stripped from this important piece of legislation. This bill requested $40 million dollars over five years, which was designed to partially fund the new CAL--CII program. This program included upgrades to our Riverside fingerprint system totaling approximately $1 million dollars. The upgrades would allow us move from a manual operation to a paperless electronic operation throughout the state. We must change to the new system before we interface with the new FBI Integrated Automated Fingerprint System scheduled to link the state fingerprint system to the federal fingerprint system in 1997. The Department of Justice will initiate a new effort the latter part of this year to once again seek funding for this much needed funding to upgrade our current A.F.I.S. We will be contacting all Chiefs of Police and Law Enforcement officials in our county when this effort begins, to seek and coordinate letters of support to the appropriate members of the legislature responsible for this legislative approval process. We will keep you informed.
These articles were reprinted in “THE PRINT” |