I hope the fingerprint requirement is eliminated but other agencies have begun requiring them for licenses so I doubt CHL will drop it. My wife had to supply them for real estate license renewal after having a broker's license for 30 years. I told her she could probably get the PD to do it and she informed me that only a private company could do it. I didn't ask then but she just informed me it was L1. Follow the money! It cost 41 bucks. I know a Real Estate Broker that's been finger printed is much more reliable, effective and professional not to mention safer because they supplied finger prints to get a license. Auto mechanics and other service suppliers will be next to be licensed and require finger printing.Charles L. Cotton wrote:I failed to mention this in my earlier post. I'm not sure of the exact date (probably May, 2010), the FBI stopped taking ink or rolled prints. So DPS has to scan rolled prints to send to the FBI. Scanning a fingerprint card and getting a good digital image is not as easy as scanning the finger. Plus, when you are having digital prints done, the operator can repeat the process until the computer accepts them as classifiable. DPS doesn't have this option with a card.
So the workload on DPS personnel went up dramatically when the FBI stopped accepting ink prints. Just using the current figure of approx. 461,000 CHL's without any increase, if it were not for digital prints, DPS would have to scan 92,200 cards a year! That's 354 a day every day of the year. This is not a workload DPS could realistically absorb.
When the FBI gave notice that it was going to stop accepting ink prints, DPS was forced to look for a digital system. BTW, I may be mistaken, but I don't believe that DPS negotiated the sole source contract with L-1. As someone else mentioned, they have the contract for several State agencies so I suspect the contract was negotiated elsewhere within the government. Again, I may be mistaken on this point.
Chas.
