What does FALCON mean to me?
I work in criminal justice.
In one far-reaching FALCON innovation, authorized criminal justice users enter the system directly, through a single web portal. They input data, search for and generate reports, and, when necessary, correct information - without a time - consuming detour through an intermediary. Each agency's access, and the public's, is of course restricted to specified information, with rigorous security.
FALCON reconciles records generated at every separate step of the criminal justice system: arrest, disposition, incarceration, and release. This integration, along with Livescan biometric identification, creates tremendous advances in process, precision, and public protection. Some examples:
- Improved positive biometric identification ensures record quality. Previously, judicial disposition information (e.g., convictions) not otherwise associated with an arrest entry, such as a notice to appear or a direct file, could not be added to a record in the criminal history system. With the new system, the clerks will be able to submit fingerprint-based conviction data with associated information.
- On-site Livescans ensure unmistakable identification of a subject at every step from arrest to court action, incarceration, physical transfer, release and probation.
- Crime scene investigators will be able to lift palm prints as well as fingerprints for identification by FALCON.
- Corrections officers will be able to verify that a criminal's DNA is already on file, saving time, money, and the wasted effort of collecting and processing duplicate samples.
- FALCON will have "watch lists" that alert probation officers when an offender is arrested.
- Officer and public safety will be improved through the combined impact of FALCON's new features and functions.
- Sexual Predators and Offenders reporting to re-register will be instantly bio-metrically identified and searched against active wants and warrants.