This presentation describes coordination of Department of Justice biometric activities, and was given at the 2005 Biometric Consortium Conference.

1. Justice Needs for
Biometrics
Duane Blackburn
FBI
Duane.Blackburn@ic.fbi.gov
September 2005

2. Justice & Biometrics: One Opinion
Now Back to Reality…

3. Justice Biometrics Cooperative
• Established by the U.S. Deputy
Attorney General
• Mission JBC
– Foster collaboration within DOJ on biometric
issues and activities
– Function as a focal point and clearinghouse for
information on biometric research, technologies,
and applications
– Support participation of DOJ components in
interagency and international working groups on
biometric technologies

4. Annual Status Report
www.biometricscatalog.org/JBC/Annual_Status_Report_05.pdf

5. Activities Discussed at BCC 2005

6. Biometrics Catalog
www.biometricscatalog.org
• U.S. Government
sponsored information
sharing resource about
biometric technologies
• Increased in size and
scope due to the efforts of
JBC members
Catalog resources include:
Government Documents - Legislative Reports - Federal Solicitations –
Newsroom - Conference Presentations - Research Reports
- Evaluation Reports - Commercial Products and Consultants

7. DOJ Needs & Requirements Development
• Faster capture of forensics-quality, rolled-equivalent
finger prints and palm prints
FY04
• Identity fixing/baselining of individuals such as:
- Identify management across law enforcement, courts, and
corrections
- Common ID card for DOJ employees and contractors and
extension of that common ID card to State and local
criminal justice employees
• Identification from video surveillance
• Tracking of evidence through a chain of custody
• Logical and/or physical access control
• Real-time and/or post-event identification from
audio surveillance

8. Justice Needs for Biometrics
Note: These needs are the perspective of the speaker
and not official needs statements of the Department of
Justice or it’s component agencies.

9. Justice Needs for Biometrics
Prevention
• Surveillance of school courtyards for unauthorized
individuals
• Background checks
• Coordination with US-VISIT, State, and DoD

10. Justice Needs for Biometrics
Crime is committed
• Surveillance tapes
• Latent prints
• Internet (missing children)

11. Justice Needs for Biometrics
Prosecution
• Evidence must be usable
- Daubert
- Chain of custody
• Explainable to juries
• Sentencing – prior criminal?
?

12. Justice Needs for Biometrics
Incarceration
• Fixed Identity
– Same person in and out?
– Distribution of medication
– Prisoner privileges
• Visitor Control/Watchlist
Database Database

13. Justice Needs for Biometrics
Officer Safety
• Traffic stops (ID people before
approaching car)
• Smart guns

14. Justice Needs for Biometrics
General Needs
• Access control
• Who is watching me
• Social/legal/privacy

15. Justice Needs for Biometrics
LEA-ready
• Affordable
• Easy to use
• Rugged
• No stovepipe
solutions

16. NIJ Solicitation Hints
• <$500k
• Identify specific criminal justice
need
• Use existing research databases &
statistic packages when appropriate
(BEE)
• If new data is collected, share it with
other researchers
•Participate in USG “challenge
problems” and evaluations
• 6.3 development; not 6.1, not
equipment buys
• Meet identified R&D needs