[Center for Investigative Reporting] County law enforcement officials are preparing to widen a massive database of iris scans, fingerprints, mug shots, palm prints and, potentially, voice recordings, creating the largest such repository outside of the FBI of so-called next-generation biometric identification. With the FBI’s own system now fully operational, the next phase is for local jurisdictions across the country to update their own information-gathering systems to the FBI’s standards. Read More ›