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[{$pagename}] ([IAFIS]) is a national automated [fingerprint|Fingerprint recognition] [identification] and [Criminal action] history [Government Data Store] maintained by the [Federal Bureau of Investigation] ([FBI]). 


[{$pagename}] provides automated fingerprint search capabilities, latent searching capability, electronic image storage, and electronic exchange of fingerprints and responses. 

[{$pagename}] houses the fingerprints and criminal histories of 70 million subjects in the criminal master file, 31 million civil prints and fingerprints from 73,000 known and suspected terrorists processed by the U.S. or by international law enforcement agencies.

Employment background checks and legitimate firearms purchases cause citizens to be permanently recorded in the system. For instance, the State of Washington mandates that all applicants seeking employment in an inpatient setting that houses vulnerable minors (such as children who are mentally challenged, physically or emotionally ill) are fingerprinted and entered into [{$pagename}] as part of their background check in order to determine if the applicant has any record of criminal behavior.

[Fingerprints|Fingerprint recognition] are voluntarily submitted to the [FBI] by local, state, and federal [Law Enforcement Agencies|Law Enforcement Agency]. These agencies acquire the fingerprints through criminal arrests or from non-criminal sources, such as employment background checks and the [US-VISIT] program. The [FBI] then catalogs the fingerprints along with any criminal history linked with the subject.

[{$pagename}] is used by [Law Enforcement Agencies|Law Enforcement Agency] to request a search identify crime scene (latent) fingerprints obtained during criminal investigations. Civil searches are also performed, but the [FBI] charges a fee and the response time is slower.

The [FBI] has announced plans to replace [{$pagename}] with a Next Generation Identification system,[3][4] developed by Lockheed Martin[5] in partnership with Safran.[6]

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* [#1] - [Integrated_Automated_Fingerprint_Identification_System|Wikipedia:Integrated_Automated_Fingerprint_Identification_System|target='_blank'] - based on information obtained 2017-04-01