In Kansas, at roadside stops the police are going to start taking fingerprints?
If you are stopped by police in Kansas, don’t be surprised if the officer pulls out a little black box and takes your fingerprints.
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Posted by binky at March 23, 2006 01:09 AM | TrackBack | Posted to El Infierno de kansas | Liberty | The Ever Shrinking Constitutionif it's true as the article claims that the scanned prints won't be stored, i fail to see how this is really any more than a more reliable way to run someone's license for outstanding warrants.
my credentials as a feminist have been duly challenged here, but i defy anyone to argue that i'm not a staunch libertarian. that said, based on the above, i can't say i'm really all that bothered. if you have an outstanding warrant and you're at large and they have your prints, oh well, sucks to be you.
(if the prints are, in fact, stored once scanned as a matter of course, there's probably a constitutional problem, but that's not what is described.)
aside: perhaps it's just that i saw capote last night, but did anyone else here hoffman-as-capote's snicker over the "KBI" when s/he read the article?