The virginia state police will use funds to purchase 60 livescan units to be installed in courthouses, police departments, and sheriffs offices throughout the commonwealth to improve the communication…

The Virginia State Police received a $1,320,000 Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) under the NICS Act Record Improvement Program (CFDA 16.813). The funding will be used to purchase and install 60 LiveScan units in courthouses, police departments, and sheriff's offices across Virginia. These LiveScan units will improve the communication and transfer of criminal arrest booking fingerprints, sex offender information, and support other common LiveScan processes such as employment background checks. The project aims to enhance the state's integrated biometrics identification system and sex offender management system by providing automated electronic updates on offender names, addresses, employers, schools, and vehicles. This grant award supports the program's goal of improving the completeness, accuracy, and automation of criminal justice records reported to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS).

The virginia state police will use funds to purchase 60 livescan units to be installed in courthouses, police departments, and sheriffs offices throughout the commonwealth to improve the communication and transfer of criminal arrest booking fingerprints and SEX offender information, as well as other common livescan processes such as initiating employment background checks. These livescan units will provide fingerprint-based SEX offender registration and offender record updates, including names, addresses, employers, schools, and vehicles. In addition, the livescan units will provide this information in an automated electronic process as part of our integrated multi-modal biometrics identification system and virginia SEX offender management system.