HomeMy WebLinkAboutC-2614 - Orange County Automated Fingerprint ID System, implementation & operationCITY OF NEWPORT BEACH
OFFICE OF THE CITY CLERK
P.O. BOX 1768, NEWPORT BEACH, CA 92658 -8915
(714) 644 -3005
TO: FINANCE DIRECTOR
Police Department
FROM: CITY CLERK
DATE: September 10, 1986
SUBJECT: Contract No, C -2614
Description of Contract Joint Agreement for the Implementation
and Operation of the Orange County Automated Fingerprint
Identification System
Effective date of Contract July 29, 1986
Authorized by Minute Action, approved on March 24, 1986
Contract with Orange County Sheriff - Coroner Dept.
Address P.O. Box 449
Santa Ana, CA 92702
Amount of Contract (See Agreement)
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Wanda E. Raggio
City Clerk
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CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH
September 9, 1986
OFFICE OF THE CITY CLERK
P.O. BOX 1768, NEWPORT BEACH, CA 92658 -8915
(714) 644 -3005
Orange County Sheriff- Coroner Dept
P.O. Box 449
Santa Ana, CA 92702
Dear Mr. Frank Fitzpatrick, Chief Criminologist:
Enclosed please find a original.Joint Agreement for the Implementation
and Operation of the Orange County Automated Fingerprint Identification
System, which was approved by the City Council at its March 24, 1986
meeting, and was fully executed.
Should you have any questions, please contact Capt. Jim Gardiner,
Police Department at 644 -3750 or this office.
Sincerely,
Wanda E. Raggio
City Clerk
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cc: Police Department
Enclosure(s)
3300 Newport Boulevard, Newport Beach
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JOINT AGREEMENT FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION AND OPERATION
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OF THE ORANGE COUNTY
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AUTOMATED FINGERPRINT IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM
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THIS AGREEMENT, made and entered into the _ day of
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body corporate and politic, hereinafter "COUNTY," and the City of
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Newport Beach a municipal corporation, hereinafter "USER."
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WHEREAS, the State Department of Justice maintains an automated
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system for retaining and identifying fingerprints, said system being
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known the California identification System ( "CAL -ID "), and
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WHEREAS, the Penal Code, Section 11112.1 et seq., provides for
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the establishment of a Remote Access Network ( "RAN "), consisting of a
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statewide network of equipment and procedures allowing local law
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enforcement agencies direct access to CAL -ID, and
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WHEREAS, COUNTY and USER deem it important to have direct access
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to CAL -ID, and
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WHEREAS, there has been established in COUNTY a local board ("RAN
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BOARD "), which is charged with determining the placement of'RAN
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equipment within COUNTY, coordinating acceptance, delivery and
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installation, and developing procedures for the use and maintenance of
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the equipment, and
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WHEREAS, COUNTY, in cooperation with USER, the RAN BOARD and the
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Department of Justice, has developed a local network ( "SYSTEM ") to
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WHEREAS, it is recognized that new users may, from time to time,
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require access to SYSTEM.
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NOW, THEREFORE, COUNTY and USER agree as follows:
I. Exhibits "A" (USERS of the CAL -ID Automated Fingerprint
Identification System) and "B" (Orange County Local RAN Board
Operating Policies) are attached hereto and incorporated herein by
reference.
II. A SYSTEM shall be established in COUNTY and all right, title
and interest to SYSTEM shall remain with COUNTY. The configuration of
SYSTEM will be as approved by the RAN BOARD.
a) The SYSTEM will comprise two areas of cost components:
SYSTEM Initial and Start -up Costs, and SYSTEM On -going
Operational Costs.
1. SYSTEM Initial and Start -up Costs ( "INITIAL COSTS ")
will include the acquisition and installation of equipment
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implementation,
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Access Agency site preparation and Local Input Terminals as
set forth in Exhibit "B ", cost of ten print card conversion,
telecommunications installation and finance costs to fund
SYSTEM's acquisition.
2. SYSTEM On -going Operational Costs ( "OPERATIONAL
COSTS ") will include those costs needed to maintain the
central computer and related equipment and any Local Input
Terminals purchased under this AGREEMENT, costs for
telecommunication operations for the SYSTEM equipment, costs
of replacing the equipment amortized over ten (10) years and
funding for SYSTEM enhancements authorized by the RAN BOARD.
b) The primary purpose of the SYSTEM shall be to serve all
law enforcement agencies in COUNTY.
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SYSTEM and USERS may be removed from SYSTEM as conditions
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into contracts for the acquisition of equipment including
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financing therefor, and.service or maintenance as be necessary to
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effectuate the purposes and objectives of this AGREEMENT.
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e) COUNTY and USER(S) designate the RAN BOARD to determine
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whether or not users shall be added to, or removed from the
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SYSTEM pursuant to the criteria in Penal Code Section 11112.4; to
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III. This Agreement shall remain in effect until June 30, 1996,
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and shall continue for additional periods of ten (10) years each,
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unless the Governing Bodies of either COUNTY or a majority of the then
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USER(S) votes not to continue the Agreement at a meeting held more
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than one year before the expiration of any ten -year period and
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notifies all existing USER(S) not less than thirty (30) days prior to
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the end of the ten -year period. Notwithstanding the foregoing, this
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Agreement may be terminated at the end of any fiscal year (June 30) by
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any USER, as to that party, by serving written notice of termination
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on the RAN BOARD not less than thirty (30) days prior to June 30. The
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RAN BOARD shall promptly notify COUNTY and other USERS. Such
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termination shall not relieve the party of any financial obligation
assumed under this Agreement other than future operational costs.
IV..- COUNTY shall:
a) Negotiate or bid, as appropriate, and enter into agree-
ments as contemplated by Section II.d. of this Agreement and make
payments thereunder. ;..
b) Enter into agreements with new users which receive
approval to access SYSTEM, provided that:
(1) Any new user shall execute this Agreement.
(2) Any additional terms, conditions, modifications
and costs for entry shall be included in an addendum to the
Agreement. Said addendum will address any direct or
indirect compensation to USERS for initial costs to be
shared by new user. Indirect compensation may take the form
of improvement or modification of SYSTEM for the benefit of
all USERS.
(3) The RAN BOARD shall determine the appropriate
terms, conditions and costs to be included in said addendum.
c) Arrange financing to fund initial costs. Such financing
shall have a ten -year term, be fully or time -price differential
amortizing and be obtained at the lowest interest rate reasonably
obtainable.
V. USER and COUNTY agree to the following:
a) COUNTY will use a separately identifiable account for
the purpose of funding the SYSTEM.
b) USERS shall pay their proportional share of the initial
costs and operational costs on a monthly basis. Said payments
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shall be made within thirty (30) days of receipt of invoices from
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c) The proportional share of each USER'S cost (the COUNTY
is deemed a USER for the purposes of this section) will be based
upon the proportional use of the SYSTEM'S central processing
unit's (CPU) use time. The proportional use will be determined
on a monthly basis by COUNTY staff. Each USER will be assigned a
CPU account number for purposes of monitoring the CPU use.
d) COUNTY shall provide USERS a financial report at the end
of each fiscal year. Said report shall include an accounting of
all funds paid to vendors for the SYSTEM.
e) USER will only permit personnel trained in the use of
the equipment to operate same. Each USER will be responsible for
damage to the equipment caused by it, other than normal wear and
tear.
VI. SYSTEM Operating Policies
a) Improvements to SYSTEM are judged to be improvements for
all USERS and the costs thereof will be shared as set forth in
Section V.
b) Operational policy will be established and modified as
deemed appropriate by the RAN BOARD. This policy shall ensure
that each USER is treated equitably. Current policy is set forth
in Exhibit "B."
c) Any dispute between USERS over operational policies
established by the RAN BOARD shall be resolved by that BOARD.
VII. Each party shall indemnify and hold all other parties
harmless from liability for acts or omissions of itself and its agents
and employees in connection with the performance of this Agreement.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have hereunto set their
hands and seals on the date set forth opposite their respective
signatures on identical counterparts of this instrument, each of which
shall be for all purposes deemed an original thereof.
DATED: �Ctdr� �p , 198 COUNTY OF ORANGE
SIGNED AND CERTIFIED THAT A
COPY OF THIS DOCUMENT HAS BEEN Byr spa
DELIVERED TO THE CHAIRMAN OF Chairm&n of Its Board of
THE BOARD Supervisors
LINDA D. ROB RTS JUL P 1986
Clerk of the Board of Supervisors
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
ADRIAN RYPER, COUNTY COUNSEL
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Exhibit A
USERS of.the Cal -ID Automated Fingerprint Identification System
The City Of:
Anaheim
Brea
Buena Park
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Fountain Valley
Fullerton
Garden Grove
Huntington Beach
Irvine
Laguna Beach
La Habra
La Palma
Los Alamitos
Newport Beach
Orange
Placentia
San Clemente
Santa Ana
Seal Beach
Stanton
Tustin
Westminster
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"Full Use Access Agency' (FUAA) will mean the Orange
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Local Input Terminal (LIT) has been placed by the Local
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County Cal -ID vendor, the Department of Justice or any
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designee of the Local RAN Board to input latent or ten I
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print fingerprint cards, perform inquiry operations and
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tions. Each trained operator will have a system security
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knowledges and abilities to perform latent fingerprint
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to inked fingerprint comparisons.
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Police Department and Santa Ana Police Department.
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A participating agency will declare its intent to which Host
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Agency it will use, or it will be able to use the FUAA at the
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Sheriff - Coroner Department.
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prints collected.at crime scenes will be examined to
determined if the latent print is identifiable; all latent
prints will be examined to determine if they represent finger
friction ridge detail; whenever possible latent prints will
be compared to those individuals having legitimate access
to a.crime scene so- called "elimination" prints.
Agencies must agree to comply with system audit procedures
adopted by the Local RAN Board.
4.0 Priority Services:
4.1 The users agree to use the following priorities when using the
Orange County Cal -ID System.
Priority 1: Ten print card inquiry for in- custody subject.
Priority 2: Latent print inquiry for homicide, rape or other
crime against person or
Latent print inquiry for in- custody subject for
any other crime.
Priority 3: Routine latent inquiry and all other inquiries.
4.2 Account Numbers /Security Codes:
Each participating agency contributing to this system will be
assigned a control account number. The manager of the FUAA will
assign a security code to each trained operator. An account may
have more than one trained operator.
Candidate Respondents List:
Notwithstanding the provision of Section 5.7.3.2 of the Cal -ID /RAN
User Agreement, participating agencies will retain a hardcopy of all
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candidates lists generated as a result of a latent or ten print
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8.1 ten -print addition. The criteria for latent print retention in
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191 6.2. The quality of the card will be assessed during the
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27 7.0 Allocation of Inquiries:
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of the system, the following allocation of inquiries will be
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7.1.1. All Priority 1 and Priority 2 inquiries will be permitted.
7.1.2. Priority 3 inquiries will be restricted to those latent
prints collected pursuant to an investigation of a_ --
"felony ".
8.0 The Local RAN Board will adopt additional allocation policies
as needed in the event that the number of inquiries continue to
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CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH
POLICE DEPARTMENT
TO: City Manager
FROM: Acting Chief of Police
SUBJECT: CAL ID - REMOTE ACCESS NETWORK
Agenda Item F2(c) C _.!
BY THE CITY COUNCIL
CITY OF NWPORT (BEACH
Cal -ID is well on its way to becoming a reality in Orange County. NEC
Information Systems, the equipment vendor for the automated fingerprint
computer, has begun assembling the equipment and site preparation plans for
the main computers, and storage devices have begun.
In developing the Cal -ID System, the California Department of Justice was
aware that large metropolitan areas such as Orange County would need more
fingerprint processing capabilities than could be provided by a single
system located in Sacramento. To solve this, a series of Full Use Access
Agencies were located in major population areas. Through these Full Use
Access Agencies operational limitations within the Department of Justice
system could be resolved by the local agencies. These included increased
access and control of the database configuration at the local level.
The Full Use Access Agency in Orange County will permit local law enforcement
agencies unlimited searches against a local database of 500,000 fingerprint
cards. The County will not be encumbered by restrictions imposed by the
limited capability of the main Department of Justice computer. In Orange
County all fingerprint cards currently in Sheriff's files and in the files
of other County law enforcement agencies will be searchable against jail
bookings and latent crime scene fingerprints. It can be expected that up to
18% of the crimes in the County where latent prints are recovered will now
be solved. This will take more criminals off the street in a more timely
fashion and increase the amount of stolen property recovered since the
suspects may be located before they can "fence" any of the stolen property.
The Department of Justice design specifications for the main Department of
Justice computer would limit the noncriminal fingerprint file of 4.5 million
individuals to identification through thumbs only. While this has the advan-
tage of saving the cost of storage space and hence lowering the cost of the
fingerprint identification, it limits the ability of law enforcement to
effectively search crime scene latent prints and unknown deceased persons'
fingerprints against this file. Most crime scene latent prints are not
thumbs; hence this "thumbs only" file is of limited utility for local law
enforcement.
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The cost of our contribution to the Cal -ID Program, based upon statistics
gathered for the months of December and January when annualized, is antici-
pated to be approximately $17,000.
These estimates will vary once the system becomes operational; however, this
is our best estimate for budgeting purposes. This will include the cost of
the equipment, maintenance, enhancements and replacement of the system in
ten years.
Arb Campbel , Captain
Acting Chief of Police
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RESOLUTION NO. 86 -19
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF NEWPORT BEACH AUTHORIZING PARTICIPATION BY
THE NEWPORT BEACH POLICE DEPARTMENT IN THE
REMOTE ACCESS NETWORK OF THE CALIFORNIA
IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM (Cal -ID).
WHEREAS, Chapter 1234, Article 3.5 of the 1985 statutes
authorizes participation of California law enforcement in the
Remote Access Network of the California Identification System
(Cal -ID); and
WHEREAS, this law appropriates seven million dollars to
fund local implementation of the Remote Access Network; and
WHEREAS, it
implementation of Cal -ID
safer environment for the
is acknowledged that
will help solve crimes
citizens of our City; and
the local
and provide a
WHEREAS, a local Orange County Remote Access Network
Board has been established to determine the placement of
equipment within the County and the manner of purchase; and
WHEREAS, Section 11112.5(a) of the Penal Code provides
for costs of equipment purchase, based upon the master plan
approved by the. Attorney General, including state sales tax,
freight, insurance and installation, shall be prorated between
the state and local government entity; and
WHEREAS, the state's share shall be 70% (or approxi-
mately 1.722 million dollars) and the local government's share
will be 30% of those costs; and
WHEREAS, Section 11112.5(d) of the-Penal Code provides
that local government shall be responsible for all costs related
to site preparation, equipment maintenance, on -going operational
costs, file conversion costs and enhancements which exceed the
basic design specifications of the California Department of
Justice.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the City Council of
the City of Newport Beach will support its share of the cost of
the Orange County Cal -ID program based upon its use of. the
program.
ADOPTED this 24th
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CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH
March 27, 1986
OFFICE OF THE CITY CLERK
P.O. BOX 1768, NEWPORT BEACH, CA 92658 -8915
Sheriff Brad Gates
550 N. Flower Street
Santa Ana, Ca. 92702
Dear Sheriff Gates:
(714) 644 -3005
Enclosed is a certified copy of Resolution No. 86 -19 adopted by the
City Council on March 24th, authorizing participation by the Newport
Beach Police Department in the Rertote Pccess Network of the
California Identification System (Cal -ID).
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Wanda E. Raggio
City Clerk
3300 Newport Boulevard. Newport Beach
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
TOPIC
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INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
IDENTIFICATION BY THE USE OF FINGER FRICTION RIDGE
INFORMATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . 3
- TRADITIONAL FINGERPRINT FILING SYSTEMS . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
TECHNOLOGY - PAST AND PRESENT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
MAJOR PROVISIONS OF SENATE BILL 190 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
- THE ORANGE .COUNTY REMOTE ACCFSS NETWORK (RAN) BOARD 10
- IMPLEMENTATION ISSUES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
- COSTS OF THE REGIONAL ACCESS NETWORK. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
- COSTS TO INDIVIDUAL CITIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
- SAMPLE RESOLUTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
- MEDIA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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INTRODUCTION
Only one type of evidence is routinely discovered at crime scenes
that allows absolute individual identification of the crime's
participants -- FINGERPRINTS. Until recently, this potential tool
to solve crimes had a major limitation, the police must already know
the name of the suspect before they can use fingerprints to prove
who committed the crime. Equally alarming is the fact that wanted
criminals, using an alias, have been arrested and released before
their true identity could be learned, simply because manual
fingerprint comparison procedures are slower than the intake - release
system of modern criminal justice systems.
IScience has provided the answer to these dilemmas. Today's police
investigators and jailers can,.in minutes, learn the true identity
of their suspects.
Law enforcement must have the proper tool. It is a computer that
stores fingerprint information and allows a remarkably high speed
comparison to crime scene prints or prisoner prints. This lifelong
dream of law enforcement officers to learn the names of criminals by
the proverbial "black box" today is a reality.
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BACKGROUND
IIDENTIFICATION BY USE OF FINGER FRICTION RIDGE INFORMATION
Although recorded history indicated some primitive societies
realized the value of fingerprints as a means of identification, it
was Sir William Herschel, an officer of the British government, who
is credited with first using fingerprints in an organized fashion
for personal identification in 1858. Edward Henry continued the
work of Herschel and eventually developed an alpha - numerical classi-
fication system that for the first time provided a useful indexing
procedure. If all ten fingerprints were available, an absolute
match could be established using the Henry.classification system; by
first indexing the suspect's print information and then directly
comparing those prints to all others with a similar index code.
As early as 1880, processes were discovered that could reveal the
invisible image of fingerprints left unintentionally on objects
during the commission of the crime. These "latent prints" would
then be compared with the fingerprints of specific suspects thought
to have committed the crime.
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TRADITIONAL FINGERPRINT FILING SYSTEMS
There are two familiar scenarios. One occurs when an individual is
first booked into any jail. Inked impressions are obtained on a
standard fingerprint card. If the suspect admits to previous
bookings the file is searched, first using the name provided. If
this fails, a fingerprint search is made. As soon as possible a
fingerprint examiner classifies the 10 images using a modification
of the original Henry System. Once the alpha - numerical code is
obtained, a manual file search begins. All other cards with the
same coding are physically pulled from the file drawer and one by
one visually compared to the new card.
This procedure is time consuming and in many cases the suspect has
been released on bail before proper identification can be made.
Errors can also be made in the classification and filing process.
The second scenario involves a crime scene search and discovery of
fingerprint images on objects handled by persons at the location of
the crime.
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Independent of the public's image of modern scientific investigation,
as promoted by the entertainment media, these latent prints are
useless until someone suggests a name of a suspect. Once a suspect,
is known, the same Henry fingerprint card file is searched. If the
suspect's card is located, a manual - visual comparison is made
between the latent print and the 10 inked single fingerprints on the
card. This manual system is the only search procedure available to
the vast majority of the law enforcement agencies.in this country.
1 Innovative approaches have been used over- the years to speed this
search. Major agencies such as the FBI, State of California, Los
Angeles and New York Police Departments have installed computers
that can sort the 10 print cards on file in their data banks. These
systems reduce the file manipulation time. Orange County and the
cities of San Francisco and San Jose have initiated automated search
systems that can compare crime scene prints to their local criminal
populations. The successful identification rate has justified the
initial expense of installing the equipment but the full potential
of the program will not be achieved until we have access to a much
larger data base. The ideal data base is described in the new
California Identification System, (Cal -ID).
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TECHNOLOGY- PAST AND PRESENT
Recent developments in high speed image enhanced computers have
offered an ideal solution to the obvious problems of manual
searching. In 1979, the California Department of Justice initiated
an Automated Latent Print System (ALPS), that offered a latent print
service to law enforcement agencies.
This search procedure, described as the ultimate in crime solving,
allows submitting agencies to compare their crime scene latent
prints, to each fingerprint in the computer data system. The names
of suspects do not need to be suggested. From the moment the
program began, criminals who otherwise would never have been
detected have been positively identified, based on fingerprint
matches provided by ALPS.
Unfortunately, this service was available to only to a few small
counties in California, since the computer's capacity was limited to
500,000 names and required 26 minutes for each search. The larger
law enforcement agencies such as Orange County were denied routine
access to the system. Special searches were permitted for very
serious cases, but not for the thousands of burglaries, rapes and
other crimes committed in major population areas.
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' In 1983, the Department of Justice was directed to increase the
capacity of their system.
' Orange County has been selected to join this system.
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The funding for this Remote Access
Network was submitted
in the
Rather than simply
expand the existing process,
the decision was
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made to select an
entirely new concept that would eventually allow
with 1.5
major agencies or
groups of smaller agencies to
first develop their
searching
own local data base
of criminal information and
secondly to directly
access the State's
data base.
' Orange County has been selected to join this system.
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The funding for this Remote Access
Network was submitted
in the
1984 -85 legislative year as Senate
Bill 190 (SB190). The
State's
data base is scheduled to contain
4.5 million individuals
with 1.5
million criminals in an instantly
available single print
searching
system.
' Orange County has been selected to join this system.
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' MAJOR PROVISIONS OF SENATE BILL 190
The enabling legislation for the Cal -ID Remote Access Network was
Senate Bill 190 signed into law by the Governer in September 1985.
The major provisions are:
' * The Department of Justice shall develop a master plan, and policy
' and procedures to facilitate the implementation and use of the
Cal -ID Remote Access Network (RAN).
' * The Attorney General shall appoint a RAN Advisory Committee.
* Participating counties, or groups of counties, shall appoint a
Local Board.
' * Department of Justice shall install and maintain a telecommuni-
cations link to each system.
* Appropriates $7,000,000 over 18 months (January 1, 1986 - December
' 31, 1987) for RAN installations at local level.
* Provides fox a Local RAN Board to control local implementation.
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* Prorates cost of equipment:
- State's Share - 70%
- Local Government's Share - 30t
* Identifies local costs to be considered:
- Site Preparation
- Maintenance Costs
- Ongoing Operational Costs
- System Enhancements
* Provides for two equipment purchase options (at the discretion of
the Local Board):
- Pursuant to existing State contract
- Competitive, procurement
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ITHE ORANGE COUNTY REMOTE ACCESS NETWORK (RAN) BOARD
' Pursuant to Senate Bill 190 the Orange County Local Remote Access
Network Board was formed after the governor signed SB 190 into law.
' The members of the Board are:
' - Brad Gates, Sheriff - Coroner and elected Chairman of the Board.
Thomas Riley, Representing the Orange County Board of
' Supervisors.
- Ray Davis, Chief of the Santa Ana Police Department representing
the police agency in the County with the largest number of sworn
' officers.
- Cecil Hicks, District Attorney.
' - Earle Robitaille, Chief of the Huntington Beach Police
Department representing the Orange County Chief of Police and
Sheriff Association.
- Irwin Fried, Councilman for Yorba.Linda representing the
Orange County League of Cities.
' - Stacy Picascia, Chief of Seal Beach Police Department chosen as
the Member at Large by the other Board Members.
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' IMPLEMENTATION ISSUES
The key implementation issues considered by the Local Board were:
Determination of the Size of.the System
Determination of the Location of the Equipment
' Determination of the Method of Purchase
' DETERMINATION OF THE SIZE OF THE SYSTEM
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The Local Board
determined
that the Orange County System should be
all
initially sized
for 500,000
subjects. This would involve the com-
print files would have
puter conversion
of present
fingerprint files of the Sheriff's
their fingerprint
Department still
allow some
room for expansion.
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The
Sheriff's Department maintains the central fingerprint files for
all
persons booked at
the Orange County Jail. Some of the finger-
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print files would have
been converted by the Department of Justice
for
their fingerprint
computer and these files would be available
for
the Orange County
Computer.
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DETERMINE THE LOCATION OF THE EQUIPMENT -
' The Local Board has considered the type of equipment available in
' the Cal -ID System. The types of devices are:
' 1) Verification Only Terminal
2) Local Input Terminals
Local Input Terminals (LIT) provide the capability to input
' fingerprint minutiae and search the records contained in
either the Automated Fingerprint Identification System or the
' Automated Latent Print System. LITs can retrieve and display
' fingerprint images to verify the results of routine fingerprint
and latent print searches, confirm the identity of persons in
' custody, or to identify from a list of suspects the person
responsible for leaving latent prints at the scene of a crime.
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Verification Only Terminals
(VOT)
retrieve images contained in
the Image Storage System
and displays
them on a screen or
prints them on paper. Since
VOTs
cannot input fingerprint
minutiae data to conduct
searches,
it can be used to confirm
the identity of persons
in custody
or to identify the person
from a list of suspects
as the one
leaving the latent prints
found at a crime scene.
2) Local Input Terminals
Local Input Terminals (LIT) provide the capability to input
' fingerprint minutiae and search the records contained in
either the Automated Fingerprint Identification System or the
' Automated Latent Print System. LITs can retrieve and display
' fingerprint images to verify the results of routine fingerprint
and latent print searches, confirm the identity of persons in
' custody, or to identify from a list of suspects the person
responsible for leaving latent prints at the scene of a crime.
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3) Full Use Access Agency
' A Full Use Access Agency (FUAA), has its own automated identi-
fication data base containing the fingerprints of persons with
criminal and applicant files in a county and a fingerprint
image storage system. The FUAAs will also support a network
that would permit agencies in the same county with VOTs and
LITs to access the local data base.
Any county or geographical region with a population in excess
' of 1.5 million is considered eligible for a FUAA. This recom-
mendation is predicated upon the fact that the Department of
Justice (DOJ) only processes and retains fingerprint informa-
tion on approximately fifty percent (50%) of all arrests in the
' State. Based on this retention factor there are potentially
' large numbers of latent print identifications that could be
contained within local area fingerprint data bases. Addition-.
ally the number of inquiries to the Department of Justice's
Cal -ID computers is limited for local law enforcement.
' The Local Board determined that the Full Use Access Agency (FUAA)
should be located at the Sheriff - Coroner Department since the
' Sheriff has the centralized Records Division for County Law
Enforcement and has a 7 day a week, 24 hours a day operation .
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The Local Board also considered the types of equipment in the Cal -ID
Master Plan allocated for the County and the acutal needs of the
County.
tThe Master Plan called for one Full Use Access Agency, two Local
Input Terminals (LITs) and two Verification Only Terminals (VDTs).
The Local Board referred the question on the number and placement of
terminals to the Chief of Police and Sheriff Association for study.
The Association appointed an ad hoc committee to study this issue.
and to recommend placement of terminals. As a result of these
' studies, it was recommended that the Orange County Cal -ID Network be
expanded to four Local Input Terminals placed on a regional basis
throughout the County to serve the interests of County.Law
Enforcement.
' The regions and terminal locations recommended to the Local Board
are:
' — North Region - Anaheim Police Department
- West Region - Garden Grove Police Department
' - Central Region - Santa Ana Police Department
' - Harbor Region - Costa Mesa Police Department
It was also recommended that the VOTs, suggested in the Mast -er Plan
not be purchased as a part of the Regional Network.
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' DETERMINE THE METHOD OF PURCHASE:
' 1) As a competitive purchase or
2) As a purchase from the State's cooperative purchasing
agreement.
The Local Board has chosen to purchase equipment through the
' State's cooperative purchasing agreement with NEC Information
Systems, the vendor selected by the California Department of
Justice. The primary reason for this choice is to insure
' compatability of the Local System with the Department of Justice
computer.
The Board determined that the local bid process would be costly,
slow the procurement process and could result in computer com-
' patability problems. In addition State funding in a timely manner
could be jeopardized.
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' THE NEED FOR CAL -ID IN ORANGE COUNTY
In developing the Cal -ID System, the California Department of Justice
was aware that large metropolitan areas such as Orange County would
need more fingerprint processing capabilities than could be provided
' by a single system located in Sacramento. To solve this a series of
' Full Use Access Agencies were located in major population areas.
Through these Full Use Access Agencies operational limitations
' within the Department of Justice system could be resolved by the
local agencies. These included increased access.and control of the
' database configuration at the local level.
The Full Use Access Agency in Orange County will permit local law
' enforcement agencies unlimited searches against a local database of
500,000 fingerprint cards. The County will not be encumbered by
' restrictions imposed by the limited capability of the main
' Department of Justice computer. In Orange County all fingerprint
cards currently in Sheriff's files and in the files of other County
' law enforcement agencies will be searchable against jail bookings
and latent crime scene fingerprints. It can be expected that up to
' 18'% of the cri.mes in the County where latent prints are recovered
' will now be solved. This will take more criminals off the street in
a more timely fashion and increase the amount of stolen property
' recovered since the suspects may be located.before they can "fence"
any of the stolen property.
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The Department of Justice design specifications for the main
Department of Justice computer would limit the non - criminal
fingerprint file of 4.5 million individuals to identification
through thumbs only. While this has the advantage of saving the
cost of storage space and hence lowering the cost of the fingerprint
identification, it limits the ability of law enforcement to
effectively search crime scene latent prints and unknown deceased
persons fingerprints against this file. Most crime scene latent
prints are not thumbs hence this "thumbs only" file is of limited
utility for local law enforcement.
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COSTS OF THE REGIONAL ACCESS NETWORK
The costs of the Cal -ID project for all County law enforcement can
be divided into initial one time cost of equipment and on -going
operational costs.
Initial - Equipment Costs
One full use access agency $2,000,000
Four local input terminals $ 800,000
Total Hardware Costs $2,800,000
State Subvention ($1,722,000)
Total Local Costs $1,078,000
Initial - Start Up Costs
Site Preparation $ 200,000
Fingerprint card conversion $ 250,000
Total Initial Start Up Costs $ 450,000
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On Going Operational Costs:
These costs can be expected to re -occur each year as a part of the
total costs of operating the Orange County Cal -ID Sysyem.
Maintenance (for FUAA and 4 LITs)
$ 280,000
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area or fingerprint matchers) $ 80,000
Hardware replacement fund (amortized over
10 year life of equipment) $ 280,000
Total yearly operational cost $ 644,800
The cost of this system for the individual agency will vary with
monthly use. The hardware costs will be paid by the County and will
be reimbursed over a 10 year amortization period. Initial funding
will be a part of the County's on going Certificate of Participation
Program at a variable rate of 6.5% for a full ten -year term. Debt
service payments will be on a monthly basis with the principal fully
amortized over the ten year period.
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The Chiefs of Police and Sheriff's Association developed a survey
instrument to determine the potential use of the Cal -ID System by
each Orange County police agency. The survey tracks the number of
crime scene latent prints collected by each police department and
also tracks the number of persons arrested who would be identified
through the Cal -ID System. The amount of computer time required to
process the reported crime scene latent prints and arrested persons
fingerprints has been calculated and percentaged to give each
jurisdiction a cost projection for budget purposes.
When the system is operational agencies will be billed one month in
arrears based on the actual percentage of computer time used for the
prior month.
COST CALCULATION
The calculation of costs for the Orange County Cal -ID System is
divided into two sections:
1. Initial hardware and start -up costs
2. On -going operational costs
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The initial costs include the purchase of computer hardware, site
preparation and conversion of fingerprint cards for computer entry.
The money for this purchase will be advanced by the County and
repaid over a ten year period. The total yearly cost for the total
Orange County Cal -ID System will be approximately $216,000.
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The on -going operational costs including equipment maintenance,
communication costs from the local input terminals to the central
full use agency, allowance for systems expansion and hardware
replacement. The total yearly cost will be $644,800.
As an example, a participating agency which uses 2% of the system
time would expect to pay:
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2% x $644,800 - $12,896
$17,216
COSTS TO INDIVIDUAL CITIES
By participation in the Orange County Cal -ID System each city is
committing to pay initial and on -going costs based upon their use of
the Cal -ID System.
The formula for the cost of participation in the Cal -ID System was
formulated by the Local Remote Access Network Board with advice from
the Chiefs of Police and Sheriff's Association. This formula is
modeled after the county -wide law enforcement communications
agreements where each city is charged according to their percentage
of use.
The cost allocation for each city will be based upon the amount of
computer processing time used for each search. This measure, called
Central Processing Unit (CPU) use time is a standard measure for
cost allocation in time share computer environments. The CPU use
for an agency for a given month is expressed as a percentage of
total system CPU use by all the agencies.combined. This number is
multiplied by the monthly cost of the system for both initial
hardware cost and the operational costs.
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ISample Resolution
of the City Council of
WHEREAS, Chapter 1234 Article 3.5 of the 1985 statutes
authorizes participation of California law enforcement in the Remote
Access Network of the California Identification System (Cal -ID), and
WHEREAS, this law appropriates seven million dollars to fund
local implementation of the Remote Access Network, and
Whereas, it is acknowledged that the local implementation
of Cal -ID will help solve crimes and provide a safer environment
for the citizens of our City, and
WHEREAS, a local Orange County Remote Access Network Board
has been established to determine the placement of equipment within
the County and the manner of purchase, and
WHEREAS, Section 11112.5 {a) of the Penal Code provides for
costs for equipment purchase, based upon the master plan approved
by the Attorney General, including State sales tax, freight,
insurance and installation, shall be prorated between the State and
local government entity, and
WHEREAS, the State's share shall be 708 ( or approximately
1.722 million dollars) and the local government's share will be
308 of those costs, and
WHEREAS, Section 11112.5 .(d) of the Penal Code provides that
local government shall be responsible for all costs related to site
preparation, equipment maintenance, on -going operational costs,
file conversion costs and enhancements which exceed the basic design
specifications of the California Department of Justice.
iNOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the
City Council will support its share of the cost of the Orange County
Cal -ID program based upon its use of the program.
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to pursue fingerprint comnputer
By Judith 1. t MVM .
the Register 1 �— t H- ��
One fingerprint. filed into a Sac -
ramento -based statewide comput-
er system handling millions of
prints, produced a suspect and the
ant of the so-called "night stalker••
case.
It was all the leverage shore-
Coroner Brad Gates needed Tow
day when he asked county supervi-
e sots for their support in buying a
branch system for Orange Camty.
Gates got what he wanted.
u By Tuesday afternoon, Assistant
Sheriff Walter Fath was on a flight
to Sacramento with a resolution
i asking for $1.72 million of state
. money. That money will pay for 70
• percent of the roughly $3 million it
Will cost to buy the automated Call-
forma Identification System, or
CAL-11). the most sophisticated
1 computerized fingerprint identifi-
cation available. The rest will
; come from Orange County and lo-
cal cities.
Once online, the system will give
law- enforcement agencies
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throughout the county access to
fingerprint files statewide. Coun-
ties got the chance to apply for $7
million in state money on a firat-
come, first-served basis when Gov.
George Deukmejian Aped legisla-
tion approving the allotment in
September.
Gates said police officials in
most of the cities have promised
support in helping finance the local
cost of the system. Nothing is In
writing
utt Supervisor Bruce Nestande
wanted to know just how many
county dollars would be committed
to the project. .
"We will be committing any-
where from 5800,000 to $1 million."
Gates said. "But that's for the cit-
ies and the county." That amount
does not include operating costs.
He said later-. "This action com-
mits the county to participating in
the program. Our belief is that
well have the support of everyone
else. We have been working on this
for quite awhile, and I feel very
confident about the cities' sup -
Gates' department will serve as
local comQnter headgoartera for
the system. Each police agency
will have the pption of buying a
computer terminal, which will cost
about 5250,000 each, Gates said.
The county's computer headquar-
ters would be connected to the
state Department of Justice's cen-
tral fingerprint system in Sacra -
mento.
The county .iaurently handles
about 650,000 fingerprint cards,
Gates said. With the new equip
meat and access to statewide files,
capacity could reach 4.5 million
Despite Gates gldwing com-
meats about the new system, Nes-
tande wanted to know what will
happen to the county's current sys-
tem, which Gates called gate-of
the-art a few years ago.
That system includes a laser
method, which was used in lifting a
fingerprint from a stolen car in the
"night stalker" case. It was that
print, put into the Sacramento
computer, that led to the arrest of
Richard Ramirez, 25.
Gates said the system will not be
wrapped, only enhanced.
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County. Moves Quickly
on Fund Application.
for Fingerprint System
-By JOHN NI!1EDHAM, iWuwsBta�J WtnYer `
"7n an ail -curt search for money.
A assistant sheriff flew to Sacra-
mento Tuesday to hand - deliver an
spplication for state funds to let
Orange County set tip a =2.46 -mil-
lidn state -of- the -art f ngaprint
system of the type credited with
i entitying Nig
the suspected "ht
Sulker." .
'Assistant Sheriff Walter Path
wok the application to the state
the Department BoaJustice
d of Supervisors
agreed to take part in what is
envisioned as a statewide automat-
ed fingerprint identification sys-
legislation passed earlier
this year. the state will pay 70%
and local government 30% of the
cost of the system. But the Legisla-
ture allmted only $7 million to be
spilt among bcalities.
WVe'd like w be the first in the
ddor" to " apply for the money,
Sheriff Brad Gates told the super-
visors in urging them to approve
county participation in the system.
Supervisor Thomas F. Riley said
the board was in a rush to get the
application in "so we can get our
share of the money."
!u'aeSystemBW Wesad
bates headed a committee that
reWmmended to the supervisors
thlit they purchase the equipment
The sheriff said pollee chiefs from a
miAber of cities in the county wild
thfy expected w receive aatho isa-
tien to use the county system and
tokray a fee, to be determined later,
fat each fingerprint processed.
Riley said what is known.as the
CujWwnia Identification System
"will allow all law enforcement in
Orange County to aaees a local
dr¢a base of criminals' fingerprints
aswell as accessing the 4.5 million
fidaerfxint cards at the California
Department of Justice in Sum -
mento."
He said the system could be used
to identify a suspect teem prints
found at the scene of a crime and to
confirm .the entity of someone
who is arrested or of a dead person
whose usme L unknown.
"This will also provide faster
apprehension of criminals with a
finding increase in recov-
ered stolen property." Riley sail.
Gate' committee said in a report
that police finding a fingerprint at a
crime ecene now "must shandy
know the name of a suspect" before
matching the prints. He said they
have a surcease rate only 1 %, and
predicted that
raite
will provide 18%
wanes crfsslaab Reload
In addition, the committee said
that in some cases wanted crimi-
nals using aliases have been re-
leased before their identities could
be learned because manual com-
parison of fingerprints is so
time= conmmhtg.
The county now has an automat-
ed system that cempanes Crime
scene fingerprints to those on file in
the county ,Covering 650,000people
who have applied for various il-
censm or who have been convicted
of crimes locally.
Gates wild that when police
agencies were hunting for the
Night Stalker, his department sent
fingerprints obtained at the sane
of an assault and rape in lifeston
Viejo to Sacramento for comparison
with prints on file with the state.
He said the state normally denied
access to its system so it would tat
be overwhelmed, but because of
the "magnitude" of the Night
Stalker case an emeptfon was
granted.
Police said the fingerprints
matched than of Richard Ramirez.
The day after Gates, the Los An- .
Heil sheriff a� the Los
Angeles police chief idenUfted Ra-
mirez he was captured is Tact Loa
AnSeleL
Ramirez, 25, faces 14 murder
charges in Lace Angeles County end
has been charged with attempted
murder and rape in Orange County
.in ==action with the Mission
Vtejaattack.
The Night Stalker spread terror
throughout Southern
lee summerbymeakinginwdark-
ened houses through unlocked
windows and doors to attack his
sleeping ned with a me� were
stabbed and some were shot
Gates said the new local system
would consist of a t2- million mas-
ter computer, two local terminals
costing 000A00 each that can
accept fingerprints and search re-
cords, and two teradtela costing
:0000 each that can display fin-
gerprints already in the system for
comparison with those of people
who have been arrested or whose
lbtgerpninu have been farad at a
crime scene.
The sheriff said the state system
will cut the time required to search
for a match of fingerprints from 15
days to several hours.
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Computers
a Byte out of Crime
Police hail computer system that cracked the Night Stalker case
Three minutes after California's new
automated fingerprint identificatim
system received its first assignment, the
W It coma puter scored a direct
shiest lifted from[ an or-
ange Toyota In Los Angela to one taken
from a 23 -year -old drifter with a record of
drug and au to -theft arrests. IWO days lat-
er Richard Ramirez visa aught and
charged with one of IS murders attributed
to the Night Stalker, the serial killer who
Fingerprints can prove that a particular
suspect was at the scans of a crime, but
when investigators have only prints and
no suspect, the odds of finding a match
are greatly reduce!. Los Angeles police
estimate that it would have taken a single
expert searching manually through the
city's 1.7 million print cards 67 years to
come up with Richard Ramirces prints.
"Frankly speaking," says Commander
Bill Rathburn, "most of the dusting for
Digtls dINige rpintshowstreysoint swho-eWpsstoperrapmtotwo
had ban t seven, mo � city
The speedy identification
of Ramirez was the latest and
meat dramatic example of a
technique that has police ofil-
ciag across the US. clamor-
ing for fingerprint computers
of their own. Says Brooklyn
District Attorney Elizabeth
Holtzman: "It could revclu-
tiamiae law enforcement in a
way that no other technology
has aunts radios were pm in patrol am ".
Fingerprint Wandficatian of crimi-
nab has been routine since the turn of the
century, when Scotland Yard pioneered
Its systematic use. Computers were
brought into the proem in 1976, when the
FBI began converting some 17 million
prints to digital form. Today, every arm-
chair detective knows better than to pick
up a Ban by its handle, bat he obliterate
fingerprints that could identify the killer.
But teal policemen know that they
rarely get good prints from a handgun and
that any they do find are often uselem.
prints we do is ibr public rela-
tions purposes, to show people
that we're doing something to
pursue the criminal."
The problem is that it
takes too long to pick out the
intricate patterns of ridges
that distinguish one person's
fingertips from the millions on
file. Before computer, than
patterns were classified into
eight categories of arches,
loops and whorls. To speed up
the search, the FBI's system concentrates
an simpler patterns: the soused points
of minutiae, where a ridge line ends or a
single ridge splits into two. A thin beam of
light sans each print and records the lo.
cation of up to 100 minutiae. The comput-
er then converts these data into numbers
that an be stored of magnetic disks and
retrieved for comparison with prints tak-
en from the scene of a crime.
This method has scored some dazzling
saccaees over the yam. The Royal Cana-
dian Masted Polies, for example, used it
to tram prints &tram a box of pizza to a pro-
fissional hit man who had gunned down a
target while posing as a delivery boy. But
some police complain that their comput-
ers are too slow and too undependable for
routine police work. A typical computer
search of the fibs can take more than
six seconds per fingerprint and often
overlooks prints that are even slightly
smudged.
The computer that cracked the Night
Stalker can was designed by the Nippon
Electric Co. to overcome then deficien-
cies. It combines high-speed, custom -
made silicon chips with a new technique
for analyzing points of minutiae. Besides
plotting each point, the computer also
cants the number of ridge limo between
that point and its four nearest neighbor.
If two min n� ism pests are separated by
eight ridge lines in a pristine print,
chances are they will be separated by the
roughly same number of lines in a print
that has been distorted or blurred. The
systen's designers were certain that this
extra measure would result in dramatic
im They enetts in performance. y of San
Francisco started using a NEC finger-
print system in 1984 and almost immedi-
ately began picking up prints that pmvi-
ous searches had missed. Flipping
through 650 prints a second, the new com-
puter took only seven minutes to identify
a man who had fatally shot a 47- year -old
woman during a 1978 robbery attempt. In
its firs four days of operation, the system
cracked 34. unsolved cases. News of
the computer's remarkable performance
traveled quickly. One month later, NEC
sold a second system to the state of Alas-
ka, and eight months after that, Califor-
nia decided to scrap its existing system in
favor of one built by NEC.
In the Night Stalker case, technicians
in Sacramento were still loading records
from the old system into the new when
the suspect print was lifted from an auto-
mobile linked to the killer. At the urgent
request of police, four NEC programmers
worked all night to finish the job. The fol-
lowing day, after the fingerprint had been
scanned and digitized, the computer com-
pared it with 380,000 stored in its memory
and spit out the names of the ten people
whose pints most closely resembled it. At
the top of the list, with a probability
rating four times as high as that of the
nearest contender, was Ramirez. Says El-
ton Johnson, NEC's West Coast manager:
"We knew immediately that we had
our man."
Los Angeles police, eyeing their roster
of unsolved crimes -4,350 murders, 2,500
rapes, 20,000 burglaries- -antra wait to
plug that cases into the state's new
system. Other California lawmen share
their enthusiasm. 'There are a lot of
people walking the streets out there who
think they're home free," says Orange
County Lieut. Richard Olson. "Once we
not these computer systems working
together, they're going to be in for a
surprise." — MPhMoMWw4* 1LM*P rasd
by Ass CambibbIllbsU /ton and Aar fib
OMMILesAUaazes
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Rookie Computer
Cracking S.F.'s
Baffling Crimes
BY Harry Jupiter
As far as Sergeant Ken Moses
anti Inspector Walt lhle are con•
corned, the San Francisco Police
Department's $12 million finger.
Print computer paid for Itself the
first day it was ht operation.
Moses and lhle of the Crime Scene
Investigation Unit had spent more than
18001totnrs trying to identify the owner of
the fingerprints they found In February .
1978 at the home of Marian Slamovich,
who had been shot In the face by an
intruder.
Mrs. Slamovich died of her wounds a
month after site was shot. Six years later,
on March J. the fingerprints Moses and
lhle lifted from a second -floor window at
the Slamovich home were the first ones
.put into the new computer.
Within five minutes, the detectives
had a match. The computer Identified the
prints as those of Leonid B. Saulny, 28, a
Bank. ter operator employed by Crocker
Sautny Is now in qty Prison awaiting
trial on charges of murder and burglary
in the Slamovich case.
Moses commands the 24person
Crime Scene investigation Unfl The fin.
gerprint computer, which went into op.
Oration on March 1, is under. Mesea•super.
vision.
In Itss than six full weeks of use,
Moses said yesterday, the computer has
been the major tool In cracking 128 cases.
Most Involved burglarles — 92 of
them. But the computer abe enabled San
Francisco investigators to Identify Sus
-pests in 12 homicides. 10 robberies amd
seven sexual assaults.
"77tese Ara all 'Cold makes."' Moses
said. "eases in which only the finger.
Prins — no other evidence —hod us to i
the Suspect.
"Before we got tab computer. we
averaged 60 'Dodd makes' a year, and
those took exhausting hand searches of .
thousands of files h could often take
months to do the hand search on a single !
case. I
The average time to match up a
Print on the machine is six minutes. So, in
effect, we've done almost three years
work in just a bit over five weeks."
Moses mid he and late put all than
hours — "every spare minute either of us
land" — into trying to mall the man who
killed Mrs. Slamtovich because it was a
particularly heinous-crime, and especial -
ly lime.
"The woman bad been a victim of
the Nazis," Moses said. "They had tat•
tooed a number on her arm In a concen.
}radon camp: To survive .all that, and
then to go through what she went
through here... Well, we tried our best
to find who shot her, and the computer
came through." a
Ihle vividly remembers how be and
Mom reacted to the compute''s coming.
up with SaWny's name and matching
prints. ;
"We let out one bell of ashriek," Ible;
said. "I said, 'Holy smoke, that's the Sla-
movich case. We got it!, ;
And what happened, of jer that?
You go tiown to homicide and say,.
Here, go arrfpt'him; " Ihle said.
Another cypipuler contribution Mo..
%cs found p"attleularly gratifying In.
,valved a•Rlehmond District woman who
was the victim of a "pigeon drop". fraud
IIn March 1981.
The woman was conned by two other'
amen an t7 -mom Strect and turned
aver in in cash and'lhousands of dol•
ars worth of jewelry before realizing,p e
ad been duped. ` `
• Last month, the woman asked Moses
if police had ever been able to Identify
the women who state her matey and
jcwehy hoses checked the Computer
and them was the women. She had been
tall, local authorities have puts bold war-
rant an the woman In prison and will
bring her to San Francisco to stand trial
when she to released from the Nevada
Prison this summer.
looses Scald be was temporarily baf-
fled when the prints taken at a recent
burglary scene were those of a man who
had been convicted of nine previous bun
gtar!es and sentenced to prism
"I thought the computer must have
made a mistake," Moses said, "and then I
checked to we whom this guy was. Turn-
ed out he had been released on parole. It
was the same guy, all right, and right
back in action."
No lineation about It — Moses loves
the new computer.
"Mis Is one of the greatest crime
pleveation tools going," he said. 'They
should have one of these things in every
city in the country. The impact is nothing
Short of revolutionary."
Tile victim reported the loss and the
embarrassing way in which she had been
conned. She later helped circulate peti-
tion for signatures to put a measure on
the San Francisco ballot to buy the fln-
gexprint computer. Fingerpri,rtt.
Paying :Off
Computer
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By Larry petals
Raaminer doff writer
The San Francisco Police Depart.
meld's fingerprint computer has iden.
tilled a suspect in a aeries of 2ti rapes
over four years to The City and in San
Mateo County.
Glen Bdward Smith, V. was ae-
cused of being the "black bra rapist"
when the 329 million computer
rnet"W his prints with those round
at the scene of two of the rapes.
Smith is serving a six year term in
the state prison at Soledad for a 1989
conviction on burglary and stolen
property charges in San Mates
According to polict he has an ex.
tensiee criminal record for vehicle
theft, assault and stolen property of-
fenses, In addition to his 1993 convic-
tion.
San Francisco police Inspectors Pe.
ter Otten and Kevin O'Connor con-
fronted Smith with the print match
yesterday at Soledad. Smith, they said.
had nothing to say.
R think we kind of spoiled biday."
said oramm.
O'Connor had wrested Smith In a
1992 rape, but be was norned kwme
after it was decided the case against
him wouldn't stand the test of a trial
Police have full positive prints
from at got two of the 20 rapes be
Ikved to have been carried out by the
same man, according to Deputy Disc .
trier Attorney Peter Kling, in charge
of sexual assauit pramecuthms. Partial
prints taken in other of the assatdts
will now be matched with Smith's full
harx1print. according to Kling.
"We'll be booking hit with at least
one of the rapes next week," Kling
said yesterday. -and f expect well be
booking him for another 11 by the
week after"
The black bra rapist, so dubbed
became he forced his victims to do
panties and bras before he raped
them, is believed to have sexually as.
suspect In cv raps
satdted n women in Sm BYettei+eu
betwm January W9 and March
1999. During the sacs period, a rapist
following the ,ante Qattern assaulted
eight women to San
Mateo ForierCity
and Dab City. according to Oxen.
Typically. Olen said, the rapist
would sneak into the homes of ant%
professional woman Iivtog abow gem
wally between 11 pan. and 4 am
He would threaten his victim with
a gun or.a knit force her Wagaw
lingerie he would take from her bed-
room thawwers, insist that she cover
herfacaartdtbamrapeher.Ou nsaid.
Before the repot left, Otten eiaiA;
he would burglarize the vkftW
home. On one occasion. said Sexleat.
Assault inspector Gary l nto% a vW
tint was burned with a cigarette diw.
ing the rape. r "
Sergeant Ken Moses demonstrated the fingerprint computer to a computer
programming doss from University High School of San Francisco
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ar natomy """a
NOW Staff writer
Two fingerprints lifted. from a Santa
Monica apartment in which a woman was
bludgeoned to death in August have led to
the arrest of a San Joaquin Valley man
linked to Satanist cults by a local newspa-
per
' Allan Saps Jr., 22, of Hanford - "
arrested in his father's home Monday by
Santa Monica detectives for the Aug. 17
rape and killing of 49-year-old Jean Wildish
— a murder once thought connected to the
infamous "Night Stalker" murders of-this
summer.
Fingerprints from the murder scene'
were sent to the state's new $22 million
CAWD fingerprint identification com-
puter in Sacramento on Oct. 25. said s ate
! attorney -
anistan PO
yesterday.,
"The search took minutes by our new
system," Peterson said. The prints were
matched with those of Serpa Jr., who had a
felony arrest record for armed robbery
and possession of stolen property.
Santa Monica police Detective Ray
Cooper said the Hanford Sentinel newspa-
per had written a story linking Serpa with
Satanist cults in the San Joaquin Valley.
Cooper said that Serpa had a tattoo of a
ppeentagram — a satanist symbol — on his
kft hand Accused Night Stalker Richard
Ramirez displayed a pentagram on one of
' his palms during a court appearance in
September.
Santa Monica police said the method of
the Wildish killing resembled that used in
the Night Stalker murders. The victim was
raped during a burglary to her apartment
in the 1400 block of 14th Sweet during the
early morning hours, then bludgeoned to
death with a blunt instrument. detectives
said.
At the time of the incident. Serpa lived
in Culver City and worked as a concession
operator at Venice Pier, police said.
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single thtmmbQrl�rt. found iIa a burned -out car,
led amrth 0Ih w the four etnpects who we now
s¢eu sed of kidnaping and killing two Loa Angela
9atlege students. That thumbprint, the result of an
;ant made to a rear -view mirror, would
have led nowhere without the help of sophisticat-.
'it.apendvo technology..
The new computetiud fingerprint- matching
system at the California Department of Justice is
,not yet fully operational but it quickly matched the
sbumbprint with one of 300,000 on file. The same
'system, the Cal -1D, took minutes to identify a
wopect in connection with the Night Stalker
uses —the first time it was ever used.
"" In Orange County, the sheriffs department
99ready uses a fingerprint identification computer
gum under a lea arrangement. Now other
„ se police forces, including the Us Angela Police
Wit, are when the IM Low Angeles city
.budget was written, the fingerprint computer had
,a low priority, seventh an the LAM$ list behind
meeting needs such as more police officers and
vAw squad cam
..•:I.os Angela Police Cbief Daryl F. Gate is
pining Councilmen Zev Yarosiaysky and Hai
'Hermon in urging the city to buy a system
-programmed for Los Angeles at a cost of 96 million.
Two committees of the Los Angeles (Sty Council
,axe scheduled to meet jointly Friday to consider
,Ipw best to finance the purchase. That is a solid
start despite fares that the city will face budget
10
cuts nestyeae.
Mayor Tom Bradley„ a former pollceman who
also favors the fingerprint ot•
cautions
that t may not identification ordits
own system at this'time and notes that for the price
of the fingerprint system, Los Angeles could hire
150 more police officers. Bradley wants the LAPD
and the county Sheriffs Department to share a
regional system for which the state would put up
70% of the money under a bill sponsored by Sea
John F. Foran (D-San Francisco) and recently
signed by Gov. George Deuilcmejian.
The state envisions regional systems, all linked
with the Cal -M system in Sacramento. Each
regions! system, however, would serve competing
needs of
all jurisdietiooa in the area. In Orange
County, a special committee is trying to decide
whether to join the state network, the benefits of
which seem clear to us. But the time allotted to Los
Angeles would meet only about one -fifth of its
potential requirements.. A system of its own tied
into both the state and regional system would
allow the LAPD grater and faster access.
The computer takes minutes to do a task that
takes days by mail and hours by hand and often
yields nothing. Is it worth it? In San Francisco,
where sk system was Installed last year after a
ballot initiative, 75% of the suspects, who were
confronted with evidence.of their fingerprints at a
crime scene, have pleaded guilty to charges. On
that record, along. the LAPD should have its own
system and the sooner the better.
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Teen arrested
' in beatings
of 2 women
fA Sacramento teen-ager has been
arrested and charged with the fatal
bating and knifing of an elderly
woman in ber downtown apartment
and with the •wicbous" mufging of
another woman to a classroom at St.
P Wee miy vein stopped him In the
•middle of somethtog and prevented
bather assaults," Chief Deputy Lee
Dohm of the Sacramento Police
'Department said Wednesday. "Any -
ooider• women � ping
A State fingerprint `computer Idea
Ned 19.year-year I:soee Ian Osband
as the killer 2% boors attar a
I from the murder scene
was submitted Tuesday, Debut sae.
Osband's fingerprints had been
recorded from a prim, undisclosed
felony arrest, Dohm said. Police
obtained the suspect's address from
his probation officer and Osband
surrendered without resistance at
7:70 pm. at 1465 Jmhck Drive. The
address is In South Sacramento,
near the town of Freeport, where
the unemployed suspect lived with.
his mother and grandmother.
"We've had people working on
this overtime since it started,"
Dohm Said. "We finally came up
' with the fingerprint and rushed it
over Tuesday...
Dohm said the investigation began.
ate the "vtc*n assault" an W
year-oil Lobs Minnie Skuse. whose
body was tpad by her Son on Oct 6
in her apartment at 25Z5 V St. ,.
The wyear Sacramento resj
' bad been "beaten severely," but
death rewsdted from a stab to the
throat. detectives said. Her bedroom
bad been ransacked and her body
covered by items removed from
drawers and closets.
There reportedly were no signs of
forced entry. The murder weapon
was left at the scene.
Deb= said crime scene investiga-
tors labored for two weeks before
developing Osband's fingerprint
Tuesday, a day after be allegedly
struck Spin.
second -grade teacher at St.
Patrick's School, 5945 Franklin
Blvd., bad just completed a confer-
ence with parents when Osband
1may/ rv7• —v. v I �
caught ber :Jane in bar Classroom at
5 p.m.: Dohm saw.
Bike Said Osband battered and
bred to tilt the 51-year-old woman,
who = k w a struggle
deaptte a stgoitbcant lass of blood.
She was dlacovered alter she stag,
`feted into a hallway.
The victim was unable to look at
pbebograpbs of Osband Wednesday
because her eyes were swoUm shut,
Police SIRI& Her WSW oft Wednesday as as
Inves
� blood spatters on the and floor,
"With all of the activities going en
at the school that night I don't think
rte loather even felt like she was
alone." Said Slater Arlene Centtelly,
associate superintendent of Catholic
schools for the Sacramento Diocese.
"It was AM light outside and tare
were aecov and valleyball games
Plot on."
Connelly said a Iabter would be
sent to all parochial campuses,
rtmindbng employees to avoid work-
ing atone after school hours.
Principal Luamhe Manganaro said
the teacher with 26 years of expert.
ence was Spending her fist year at
SL Patrick's and had received a
flood of cards, flowers and guts at
Sutter Memorial Hospital.
She said the incident had not
made students tearful, "but it has
made them more prayerful and
aware of being sate."
Deem said the arrest marked the
first instance in which the g�taate�
jjgpartment of Justke s ffngerpn�"in
tden STiicaFon compu r solved a
Sacramento city murder. The eorm
puler has a pool of 750,000 subjects.
A new system to be installed nod
year will Include 1.5 million sub-
jects.
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Editor
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LAPD should have afingerprint computer
he fact that thousands of
crimes go unsolved in Los
Angeles doesn't mean crooks
are smarter than cops. Crimi-
nals often leave behind fingerprints
that could put them behind bars if
investigators only had what they need
to track those prints down.
A crucial tool that the L.A. police
lack — and
should have — is x �`
a computer that
can swiftly com-
pare fingerprint
evidence with ,
those of known
criminals whose
oonare already
fis ile. Currenty L
investigators try
to match prints
by head, often a futile effort
Recently, the state's own finger-
print computer was used to identify
and apprehend suspects in two major
cases — the Night Stalker serial
killings and the murders of two
college students abducted from the
UCLA area. L.A. Police say that if
they had such a computer here, they
Could dose another 25,000 cases 'a
year. Including hundreds of murders
�ad rapes. To us. the computer's 56
million price tag would be a bargain if
only half that number of additional
cases were solved. Some point out
that the state is already in the process
of providing one of these computers
to serve police agencies throughout
Los Angeles County; the LAPD could
buy access to the centralized com-
puter for $1 million. Where crime in
L.A. is concerned, however, we should
not place economy higher than speed
and efficiency. The burden on the
LAPD Is too great for it to have to
stand in line for a computer that
might be shared by more than 50 local
jurisdictions L.A. law enforcement,
which relies on the City's centralized
data processing for much of its record
keeping, already knows from bitter
experience what its like to be kept
waiting.
If the new equipment is installed.
many stymied criminal investigations
could be completed quickly — witb-
out hiring legions of new officers.
Moreover, many of the resultant
arrests might well prevent future
crimes, by taking repeat offenders
out of circulation. with that in mind.
the City Council has wisely approved
the purchase in principle. It ought to
give final approval as quickly as
possible. do
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Crimes
ERIC LEE-*
OWMw.m stows.
California's new space -age
erprint identification sys4m
fa two for a — uP
fiNchard Ramirez as the
er suspect and Damon Red-
d as one of the four suspects
In the killings of two Thousand
�tks college students
■ Now state officials are hoping
%
we a series of breakthroughs
v Z naoIved murder cam as
start feeding fingerprints
into the system this week feoom
F homicides going back over
e y�
We are anticipating a number
of hire," said Fred Wynbrandt,
rd director for the MS mil
won California Identification
It�was the Cal ID eomputw —
*hen it was still in the testing
gtages — which was p used to
id andd the
Red�d. Itnwill be
it Into fail operation starting
is week.
After these areliminary sue-
important element In
identification of criminals we
ve seen in the last 100 years"
yet its use has intensified the
.Political battle in Los Angeles
ver development of a similar
Cmdr. William Rathburn said
Epte Los Angeles Police Depart•
lent could have its own finger -
printg computer system within a the project is r tely by the City Council.
a study by the City Ad-
ministrative Office showed that
could cwt more than 17 mil-
Ilan. compared to ;1 million for
O]lining a regional system fir Los
An6ge�les County connected to
mew also computer.
'The City Administrative Off -
recently prepared a, report
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which said, in effect, we should
wait until we see what happens
with the state regional system,,
Rathburn said ere are not
sutfictent funds in the state to
fiord the regional system locally.
We cannot affwd to wait until
1888 to get a regional system."
Ken Cable, chief of technical
services for the Loe Angeles
County �Spheerrtifff's Department, is concerned
said his about the LAPD'ss tproposal onlyy
If it could jeopardize state ftmnd-
ing for a countywide system or
require law enforcement agen-
cies in this county to check two
computer files.
"We think a single system
here is more than adequate,,'
Cable said. It would take two
Yom to set up.
Rathburn said time is of the ss-
senee since LAP I has a backlog
of 1,600 unsolved homicides with
latent prints since 1847, many of
which might be solved if the city
W its own computer system.
The San Francisco Police De-
partment has had its own system
since F`ebuary 1984 — basically
the same as the state's but with
fingwprints mainly from the San
Francisco area. If a convicted
felon from from Oakland com-
mits a crime across the bay, for
example, his print might not be
is the San Francisco computer.
Capt. Henry Eidler, project di-
rector for the installation of San
Francisco's computer, said that
before his system went on line,
police there solved about 50 cas-
ti year
identifications.
fingerprint
In the 13 months since the sys-
tem was set up, 1,089 cases have
been solved throuugghh fingerprirnt
identification, mid �ridler.
San Francisco has a data base
of prints from 300,000 people, in-
cluding people with criminal
records and people who have
simply had criminal record
checks based on their appuca-
tions far licenses and jobs.
One of the first murder cases
cracked by San Francisco's com-
puter — a ease that was eight
years old — used pinta obtained
from a man who had a criminal
check when he applied for a job
as a computer operator in a
bank.
Wynbrandt acid the state's
computer also has files on people
who had criminal checks for li-
censes and jobs, but they were
not used in the search that iden-
tified Ramirez and Redmond.
A fingerprint data base of
380,000 felons from California ar-
rest records was used in those
' cases, said Wynbrandt. That file
eventually will be increased to
prints from 1.5 million people ar-
rested for serious crimes in Cali-
forn* officials said
terceep Phillips, national diree-
of fingerprints for NEC Infor-
mation y _stems, which set up
the California and San Francisco
computers, said the decision to
put the fingerprints of license
and job applicants in the comput-
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Wynimandt, whose computer
i. part of the GB m7o"f Attorney
Ceaerrd's Divieio of Law 1>3t-
forcement. said the way the
computer was used fn the
Rsmirea and Redmond cases il-
lustrates how it will be used in
other roam.
Be said it took only W minutes
for the computer to identify Red-
monifs
o tithe �viiew mirror of
Brian Harris' burned -out car five
days before the bodies of Harris
and his girlfriend. Michelle Anne
Boyd. were found in a grassy
alrnrg Mulholland Drive In
Sherman
Wynbrandt aa{d mvestAgators
took RedmondIs to out
of the car and it
times photographically bet ore it
was traced in ink by a finger -
print expert and then reduced
back down to its normal wise
The tracing eliminated the
POEompute, Wynbrandt
He said a trained fingerprint
examiner's mind is more sill.
dent at elinunating smears and
enhancing prints than the com-
raw crating linear im-
ages of fingerprints.
"You do not have to trace to
sys-
tem, bruit the mind ofitthethe
techni-
dan makes more intelligent dr
visions," said Phillips.
"We inserted it (the tracing)
Into an image scanner, which au-
tomatically initiated a search.
which took 20 minutes. printing
ant a hit list that gave us a ...
numerical number stating the
probability tlt1 the per-
m,- Wynbrandt said.
He said the computer operator
bad instructed the machine to
print out information about the
100 fingerprints that most doer
ly matched the one taken from
the car.
ne finalt expert. Wynbrandt
Philitpe and Eid r the
more than 90 percent
m the computer places the cor-
wwhhen ppriata out close matches.
Wynh=a described CaWor-
nix's new fingerprint computer
as the mast sophisticated such
system in the world. with much
more advanced capa}luitm than
the one used by the FBI.
"We are storing images of the.
fippngerprints on optical disc,
that are accessed
User," he acid. "They via a
are very
high resolution images. I can.
send that image anywhere in the
world."
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A Mgerprint lifted at a crime scene led to the
of a south sacraments man on charges of
to one woman and attempting'to bill w
. police said Wednesday.
The suspect, lance Ian Osbsad. 19, was ar-
ed Tuesday night at his Janrick Avenue home.
He was being beld at Sacramento County Jail.
Osband was charged with murdering Las M.
Skase, e8, who was found dead Oct 8 in her ran-
sacked Y Street apartment She died of a stab
wound to the neck and a severe beatlag, secord-
teg to report
The suspect also was charged with the attempt -
'ad murder Monday afternoon of a Sl- yearold
tacker at St Pab ieYs Catholic school on Frank.
he Boulevard In south Sacramento. The victim,
whose name was not released, was brutally beat .
an and possibly stabbed In the neck and sexually
assaulted in a classroom, police said.
Pulice have developed evidence linking Osband
'with the school attack. Sgt Bob Burns said. He dt
tuned to be more spccift
Police, who bad been unable Wdatiy to identify
a suspect in the Skuse case, subsequently found
the intent fingerprint at her home at 2823 Y SL
The print was idendfkd Tuesday by the Do-
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ony. No details of that arrest were released.
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No motive has been found for Skuse's mural
or the teacher's beating.
Skuse's body was found by her son, Robert Rio.
se, after he was notified by a friend that bla mothr
er hadnY been sea for two days. :.
The second incident occurred at about S:JJ >
Monday, as the teacher worked late, police sat&
Luanne Mangeoaro. principal at SG PabUX1a
aid the teacher had just met with some parent .
and was getting ready to go home,'wha this mesa
came is and just started to bat ber.'
The teacher suffered heavy lacerations to her
face and eyes and other injuries that police said
are Got -life-threatening.- She Is recovering at a
Mal hospital
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hat began as an armed .+
car theft ended in the
told-blooded execu- fo`
tion -style killings of und slain
two university students — missing
since last Monday — whose bodies `
were found yesterday to the Santa
Monica Mountains authorities said. t hree smVects arrested
Three men have been arrested in l ,' ■
connection with the murders, and a
fourth suspect was being sought.
Police Dated that UCLA
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and her boyfriend. Brian
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in etxecation -style
ort
who attended Cal State Northridge, ((
were killed because one of the
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suspects was convicted last year on '
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testimony from a car theft rictm,
also a UCLA student The student in
shooUm deaths
that case was released unharmed.
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The bodies were found at &M
On Thursday. investigators iso•
a.m. lying in a grassy, sun-browned
Iated a single thumb print on the
the
destroyed all the older is But
field along Mulholland Drive about
a quarter mile west of the San
outside . view mirror on
driver's side of the ear. The print
;our victim was foot 2 All the
Diego Freeway. They were fully
w1s run through the state's .
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driver reached out to adjust the
clothed, and had been shot execu•
tion style in the head with an Uri
ment of Just ice coo in Sacra'
mirror, that simple act allowed us
semi - automatic rifle, police said.
user that
" identification of the
to found out who they were."
Police said they did not know if
The last their friends saw them '
was shortly after 11 p.m. on Sept, ;
led to the
fingerprints of Night Stalker $pa-
tbesuspects were street gang mem-
X when Boyd ran barefoot from
pect Rkttard Ramiret in late Au- ,:
bem
Inrestigators ran Redmond's
her apartment at 333 Cayley Ave. in
Westwood, just across from the
pivsi
With .the computer report as a
tame through the Los Angeles
UCLA campus, to accompany Herr•
lead. homicide detectives yesterday
Damon 1.ayte
police computer — checking for
People he had been arrested with
ris to his parked car, a Honda. Roth D
victims were residents of Thousand j
morning arrested
Redmond, 19. It was his thumb
and known associates — and ob-
Oaks where Harris lived with his j
print police found on Harris's car
Arrested at the same time
twined the other names.
Carpenter said Investigators
Parents and commuted to class in
Northridge
"! of
, mirror.
at his home was Deandre Antwine.
grown, 21. The third suspect, Stan-
soot learned that Davis was on
parole after his conviction by testiL
kind knew their were dead,"
Sally Hayashi, Boyd 's 23- yeir4id
ley Bernard Davis, 23, was arrested
mony from the victim of an "ex-
tremely similar crime ". in June,
roommate and the leaf person to see
yyesterday afternoon. All three are
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sensed it."
front the Firestone area
They were each booked on suspi•
"He confronted a UCLA student
Los Angeles police said the
cion of two counts of first- detpee
and held without bat.
In the area, had the victim drive
himself to Mulholland, robbed him.
assailants, whose truck, broke down
near the UCLA campus, robbed the
murder
An Uzi setnl automatic rifle was
kicked him out of the car and drove
in the car." he said. "Phis time
couple at gunpoint and stole Harris'
recovered that is believed to be the
off
they took the riMims out to the
car. They drove the victims to the
murder weapon
"Thy guys are criminals." said
field and killed them."
field off Mulholland Drive and
killed them, police said.
Lt Mike Carpenter. 'These individ-
Police supervising removal of
On Tuesday morning, the Honda,
uals live within two or three blocks
other. Their criminal ca•
the bodies from the field were
grimly outspoken over the fact that
a 1981 brown four-door sedan, was
found burning in an alley on Fast
of each
reeK are intertwined with each
at least one of the suspects was a
Florence Avenue in the Firestone
area, about 15 mfles from Boyd's
"We put long hours — many,
he
apartment Harris' wallet and text.
books were found in the charred
many boars — into this case:
said• "We had no leads Redmond's
car,
print broke the case. The fire
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find around 10 a.m. yesterday. They
,declined comment
ft's tough," Carpenter said.
"When you do something like this
1you look into their background.
You get to know these people
asvaonally. These are two nice kids
'rum a small rural community.
Thousand Oaks.'
'When you find out some people
took them to an empty field and
executed them because they
wanted their car, it's just a very sad
' Thousand d Oaks Hingh�Schoo�l,
began dating over the summer
while waking together as bales
lea at Music Plus record-video
7n Thousand Oaks. They had
recently quit their jobs because of
4001.
'I suppose theyv be out for this
before I retire." Cmdr. Lary Bink•
ley of West Bureau told reporters.
Asked why the, aspect was on
parole, be replied, "You tell me."
Meanwhile, authorities learned
that Davis was out -on ball during
last week's incident Carpenter said
Davis was arrested Sept 28 on drug
charges and was freed on 15,000
bail "two days before this oc-
curred."
Redmond was arrested Oct. 2 —
two days after the abdrupcetioonnr— on
a "We thought we'd pied find 1 min
the released Saturday morning." was
Authorities served search war=
nuts at four separate locations in
making the arrests yesterday.
"We talked to them and they
began telling us what had hap•
t e dg h tDgi� � . d tDaysnsp
of taking Harris and Boyd — one at
a time — to the field and shooting
them
"One of them took us to the
scene where he believed the kill.
ings had occurred," he said. "We
found the bodies lying in an open
field."
Once Harris's car was found.
But the couple is — play.
and Richard Harris and Christina
and Michael Boyd, an of Thousand
Oaks — remained ,optimistic.
Friends Saturday began dlstribut•
ing 3,008 flyers with the couple's
•pphhotos throughout West Los Ange-
"It's very difficult" Harris's
mother. Mary Harri& said last week
Not knowing Is the worst part of iL
U long as you don't knew, there's
hope they're X11 right" -
"Everybody's shocked,- said
Nichard Young. Rant manager
at the store. "It's hard to take
Everyone here was kind of like a
family. Everyone was close. It's like
losing a part Harrlsan English f m "
major and
bona student in his third year at
Cal State Northridge, was a serious
guitar player and an Eagle Scout.
"He had a great acme of humor,"
said Adam Levy, Ill, who waked
with Raffia at Music Plus. "No
matter how serious or down anyone
was he always made people laugh."
Hayaskii Boyds roommate. sale
Harris visited Boyd nearly every
other day. She said the couple often
went out for dinner or on picnics to
Santa Monica Beach.
"She told me she hadn't dated
for two years,•• the ruummate saw.
"Until am met Briam she couldn't .
find anyone decent. She was a born- •
again Chr istian. She didn't drink ;
She didn't smoke. She was really
nice She was like a baby sister to
me"
Boyd — an avid macaroni and
cheese eater — had bees sharing
the apartment with Hayashi for two
weep. The day the couple was
'abducted was Boyd's first day at
UCLA. She planned to major " in
psychology
always wanted to go to
UCLA," Hayashi sai& "It was her
dream."
Staff rrrav Ruben Cadaneda eon•
tribated to tfus stay.
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abductions, police lined a finger-
print from the vehicle that enabled
sychriswoodysird '.date prison and was then placed on ahem to identify one d the suspects
aneaAady aMo parole, which was terminated in and eventually break the case.
'day 1984 Authorities had to send the print
Drug charges were also pending to Sacramento to ran it through a
The Los Angeles County Board
:against Brown and Davis at the sophisticated state
ueenarsmeas�eF
of Supervisors has ordered the ;time of their arrears, and another _J_nat�ic compu r that the LAPD
district attorney's office to issue a �t to the ease, Damon Low �uasuccrosfuity been trying to
report on the arrest, probation and :Redmond. 19, Is facing trial for a obtain.
parole records of three.of the four ;May 1984 armed robbery in East Police . Chid Daryl F. Gates
suspects booked in the murders M :Los Angeles. scheduled a press conference for
two college students last week. Edelman, a resident of the area today in City Hall to which he will
"IVs a matter of great concern to . where Boyd • and Harris were ab• be joined by City Council members
the public that People who had : ducted, said. "It's important that we Zev Yaroahvsky and Hal Bernson to
prior records of a serious kind are • ask the district attorney to give us discuss efforts to get the computer
wandering the streets and are not :the facts on what crimes they for the LAPD.
in custody." said Supervisor Ed
:committed, (when) they were put is . Yaroslaysky is chairman of the
Edelman, author of the motion ;prison (and) when they were put on council's powerful Finance and
approved by the board yesterday. : parole." Revenue committee while Bernson
Three of the four suspects ar- Police said the four suspects heads up the Police. Fire and Public
rested Sunday in the execution. ;abducted the couple from outside Safety panel
style slayings of Michelle Ann Boyd. Boyd's apartment in the 5011 block Mayor Tom Bradley and the city
18, a UCLA freshman, and Brian of Gayjey Avenue in Westwood to administrative office have sug-
Harris, 2D. a Cal State Northridge :use their car in a robbery. The Vested that the police department,
junior, had been arrested for seri- tt decided nor to commit the instead d purchasing its own ram-
ous felonies within the past four ,robbery, pollee acid muter, join the county sheriffs
yearn The t odies of Boyd and Harris department and other police agen-
A fourth suspect in the case, were found Sunday in a field off cis in buying a regional system.
Donald Boy Bennett, 21, was taken ; Mulholland Drive, about a quarter- Herald staff writer John Chandler
Into custody yesterday. He had no ;fie west of the San Diego Free- contributed to this story .
Two Of the suspects, Stanley
Bernard Davis, 23, and Desndre
Antwine Brown, 21, were arrested
in June 1984 after stealing a car at
gunpoint, robbing the driver and
leaving the victim stranded is the
Santa Monica Mountains.
Davis served only two months is
county jail after Pleading guilty to
the misdemeanor charge of joyrid-
ing. Police said charges were re-
duced when the victim in last year's
case could not identity the suspects.
Brown's case was dismissed.
In ML Davis received a proba-
tion term for auto theft Inter that
year, he was arrested for robbery,
but pleaded guilty to the reduced
charge of assault with a deadly In the
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