Mobile Biometric Technologies (Collier County Sheriff's Office)

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Collier County Sheriff's Office
Naples, Florida
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Karie Partington
Media Relations Manager
Collier County Sheriff’s Office
Naples, Florida
Phone 239.252.0606
Ext. 2606

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Joe,
Our responses to your public records request are below in red.
The Collier County Sheriff's Office currently deploys one mobile biometric technology: Rapid ID fingerprinting.
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On Aug. 9, 2015:
Dear Custodian of Records/Public Records Coordinator,
I am collaborating with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a public interest group, and the media organization MuckRock, to survey how law enforcement agencies deploy mobile biometric technologies.
Mobile biometric technologies can be defined as any mobile device or mobile app used by law enforcement agencies to scan, capture, analyze, store, or automatically recognize any physical or biological characteristic of a subject. Commonly used mobile biometric technologies include fingerprint/thumbprint collection, facial recognition, scans of the iris or other elements of the human eye, Rapid DNA, and tattoo recognition. (Please see below for examples.)
Pursuant to Florida's Sunshine Law (Fla. Stat. secs. 119.01 to 119.15 (1995)), I request the following records pertaining to mobile biometric technologies, including those listed above, as well as other biometric technologies I have not identified:
1) Purchasing and procurement documents, including but not limited to: purchase orders, RFPs, responses to RFPs, invoices and contracts. SEE ATTACHED.
2) Policy, procedural, and training documents, including but not limited to: use policies, standard operating procedures, training materials, presentations, privacy assessments, data retention policies, and other guidelines. SEE ATTACHED.
3) Programming documents, including but not limited to: funding opportunity announcements, grant applications and grantor status/progress reports, reports to legislative bodies, annual reports. We do not have any such documents. Nothing was purchased through grants.
4) Audit documents, including but not limited to: audits of the system, misuse reports, and reports to oversight bodies. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement, which oversees the Rapid ID program, does not require an audit. There haven't been any reports of misuse.
In your response, I would appreciate that you individually address each of the above categories of documents individually.
In addition to the above classes of documents, I am also seeking the following information:
- The total number of individuals whose biometric data has been collected over the last three years. This is not information that we track nor are we required by FDLE to track.
- The total number of [biometric data points] contained in the agency's database. 165 mobile Rapid ID devices, five hardwire Rapid Id.
- The retention period for biometric data. Forever.
- The number of mobile biometrics devices purchased and in use. 160 Rapid ID devices.
- The total number of authorized users of the mobile biometrics devices. At minimum, half of our road patrol deputies, or 200 to 250.
- Which external agencies and entities have access to biometric data in the database and under what conditions. Florida Department of Law Enforcement has access to Rapid ID database. FDLE oversees the program.
- Whether biometric data is combined with biographic data such as name and address in the database, and
- The process by which data is entered into the database. Two-finger scan.
These documents will be published online and inform the public dialog over police technology. Because of the great public interest in these issues, I ask that you waive any fees. If your agency is unable to do so, please contact me with an estimate of the costs.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Joe Balber
Examples:
Mobile facial recognition
http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2013/nov/08/cir-facial-recognition-software-san-diego/
Mobile fingerprint readers
http://www.policechiefmagazine.org/magazine/index.cfm?fuseaction=display_arch&article_id=1824&issue_id=62009
Mobile iris scanners
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/20/us-crime-identification-iris-idUSTRE76J4A120110720
Rapid DNA
http://www.policemag.com/channel/technology/articles/2014/02/speeding-up-dna-analysis.aspx
Mobile Tattoo Recognition
http://www.lawofficer.com/articles/print/volume-10/issue-4/features/new-smartphone-app-interprets.html
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Michelle

Michelle Batten,
Community Engagement Department
Media Relations Bureau,
Collier County Sheriff's Office,
Desk: 239.252.0602, ext. 2602
Cell: 239.253.6052
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