New machines at county job centers use fingerprints

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New machines at Cuyahoga County job centers use fingerprints
System draws critics but some clients like it

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Friday, March 28, 2008
James Ewinger
Plain Dealer Reporter

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The machines and software are provided by Youngstown-based Empyra, a 10-year-old software and service provider. Unlike police records, they require only a single fingerprint...




Jeffrey Gamso, legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio, is skeptical.

"The problem is, when government collects information and stores it for one purpose, you know two things about it," Gamso said. "They are going to lose the information and they are going to misuse the information, or at least use it for a purpose that you never agreed to let them have it for."...


Other counties - Mahoning, Trumbull and Columbiana - already use the system, and 90 percent of their clients prefer the fingerprints, including those who expressed initial reservations, Empyra CEO Shanthi Subramanyam said...