Voters asked to approve levy for biometric crime database

Voters from King County have been encouraged in a Seattle Times editorial to approve and support a six-year $120 million levy for an automated fingerprint identification system for the Seattle area. An automated fingerprint identification system (AFIS) allows law officers to match palm prints and fingerprints in a database composed of hundredths of thousands of files. Comparing this data enables law enforcement officers to track down and solve critical investigations and crimes. In December 2011, a man named Jesse Ryan