Law Enforcement Assistance FBI Fingerprint Identification

The Federal Bureau of Investigation provides fingerprint identification and arrest-record services to criminal justice agencies, federal government entities, and authorized state and local authorities under CFDA 16.303, a program with no posted grant opportunities or recent award activity in the source materials.

This program operates as a service-delivery mechanism rather than a traditional grant-making vehicle. The FBI's Criminal Justice Information Services Division furnishes criminal identification through fingerprint analysis, historical criminal record determination, fingerprint identification of missing persons and unknown deceased or living persons, and latent fingerprint and palm print analysis of physical evidence. Services support criminal investigations and official statutory purposes; information is restricted to authorized use and not released for public dissemination.

Eligibility is broad: all criminal justice agencies, federal government organizations, and other statutory-authorized governmental and nongovernmental entities may request services. Initial requests must originate from a statutorily authorized agency, be submitted on official letterhead, include the requesting agency's address and signatory official's title, and affirm that information will be used only for criminal investigation or other official statutory purpose. Responses are sent only to the head of the requesting organization.

The source materials contain no grant awards, award history, funding amounts, assistance-type characterization, or recent grant opportunities. This program does not operate under the traditional competitive grant-application model; instead, it functions as a fee-for-service or direct-provision arrangement where authorized agencies request fingerprint and records services from the FBI's centralized database and processing infrastructure. Organizations seeking to participate do not submit proposals or compete for funding; they submit service requests through the established channels to the Criminal Justice Information Services Division at 1000 Custer Hollow Road, Clarksburg, West Virginia 26306. This structure makes it unsuitable for pursuit through standard federal grant development workflows, though criminal justice organizations should understand the program's availability for fingerprint identification and records services.