The recent upgrade of our Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS) now enables the electronic submission of applicant tenprint cards to the FBI for a nationwide criminal record check.  FBI response can now be achieved within hours of submission.

This improved technology changes the complexion of how an agency will submit the paperwork required to comply with the background check statutes.

Some agency licensees/applicants may be fingerprinted on a livescan device located at one of the local law enforcement agencies.  A fingerprint card may not be printed and given to the applicant, but instead will be electronically sent to the State Police, and immediately forwarded to the FBI.  In either event, the licensee/applicant should immediately notify the licensing/hiring agency that he or she was fingerprinted by a livescan device, and that the agency must then send in the corresponding state request form and immediate payment. We also ask that the agency indicate which applicants are AFIS LIVESCAN participants so that the requests are correctly processed. This insures that our response is as timely as possible, and also enables us to forward time-sensitive payments to the FBI.