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Accurate Background expands biometric Livescan network

Friday, January 11, 2008

Accurate Background has expanded its fingerprinting network through the purchase of assets including livescan capture systems and custom electronic Biometric Information Processing System (eBIT) software from Cross Match Technologies. Accurate Background will expand their services by providing the only nationwide expansive network of livescan fingerprint collection machines.


Accurate Background Aggressively Expands Biometric Livescan Network

Accurate Background Inc., a solution driven leader in the background screening industry, today announced the expansion of its fingerprinting network through the purchase of assets including livescan capture systems and custom electronic Biometric Information Processing System (eBIT) software from Cross Match Technologies, Inc., a global provider of biometric identity management systems.

Lake Forest, CA — Accurate Background Inc., a solution driven leader in the background screening industry, today announced the expansion of its fingerprinting network through the purchase of assets including livescan capture systems and custom electronic Biometric Information Processing System (eBIT) software from Cross Match Technologies, Inc., a global provider of biometric identity management systems.

The livescan capture systems, eBIT technology and assumed contracts of Cross Match collection sites will strengthen the already existing Accurate Background network. With these assets, Accurate Background will expand and maximize their compliance and consolidated services by providing the only nationwide expansive network of livescan fingerprint collection machines.

Our customers are interested in a single source. With this acquisition we can now offer our clients a completely integrated solution, which allows us to provide more timely decisions to our clients; while at the same time improving the applicant’s experience.

Using conventional methods, fingerprints can take up to six weeks to verify, while digital fingerprint scans can be verified within minutes. Accurate Background’s Executive Vice President, Catherine Aldrich stated, “Our customers are interested in a single source. With this acquisition we can now offer our clients a completely integrated solution, which allows us to provide more timely decisions to our clients; while at the same time improving the applicant’s experience.”

Accurate Background is technologically advanced in the background screening field and has two patents pending for unique industry processes. For the second year in a row, Accurate Background was ranked on Deloitte’s 2007’s Technology Fast 500, a ranking of the 500 fastest growing technology companies in North America. Accurate Background is also one of the top 13 background screening companies nationwide as ranked in HRO Today’s 2007 Bakers Dozen.

Accurate Background Inc., based in Lake Forest, Calif., is a technology leader in the background screening industry, offering an array of innovative and cutting-edge background check and security research products to meet the needs of human resource, loss prevention, and security/legal professionals in employment screening, vendor certification and fraud prevention.

For more information about Accurate Background, Inc. and its products, call (800) 784-3911 or visit the Company’s web site at http://www.accuratebackground.com[end] 

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In an effort to reduce operation times and costs, HRS has developed MForce as a mobile biometric product that enables law enforcement officers and military to obtain and process latent and livescan fingerprints in the field. By processing prints onsite, users are able to quickly provide investigators with intelligence.

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The contract is a significant one for Accurate as it enables them to offer same-day FBI fingerprint submission services for criminal background checks to clients such as housing authorities, Indian reservations and banks.

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