FBI’s next-gen criminal ID technology, including facial recognition, on track

Mark Rockwell Top Priority Sector:  law_enforcement_first_responders Image Caption:  Pender testifies The FBI’s next-generation of identification technology is 60 percent deployed and will be completed by 2014, said Jerome Pender, deputy assistant director the agency’s Criminal Justice Information Services Division on […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry… View full…

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GOP Gov. pardons nearly 200, including killers

By Holbrook Mohr and Emily Wagster Pettus Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. — In his final days as Mississippi governor, Republican Haley Barbour gave pardons or early release to nearly 200 people, including more than two dozen whose crimes were listed as murder, manslaughter or homicide. State records released Tuesday show…

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