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Does anyone have the news article or story of a state that recently used student interns to run/launch AFIS latent searches on old cases? If so, can you tell me where to find it.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27335906/

All she did was send it to the FBI. She didn't search afis.

Let us all give the News Media a great Hurrah for mucking up another one.

I can count on one hand the number of stories that I am familiar with that was published in the news that actually got 90% of it correct.

It is kind of hard to print the exact truth with a human interest when you are limited to 150 words.

This is what I was looking for....thank-you!!!!

San Diego uses student Interns and workers for entering and searching latents into the automated databases for screening purposes only. These students have generally completed two academic semesters of fingerprint identification at local colleges which offer forensic programs. Additionally, the student's have completed internal training which includes extensive supervised casework, and have successfully passed a competency examination within the department. Ongoing proficiency tests are scheduled annually and the student's technical procedures are ASCLD compliant. In the case referenced above, the featured intern pulled the cold case, submitted a request for an automated search to the Latent Print Unit, another student intern entered and searched the latents into the IAFIS database, yielding a possible candidate. A Latent Print Examiner was then assigned to work the case to conduct the comparison component, and was able to make the identification. It was truly a combined team effort which included a far greater scope of involved investigative and technical personnel than what was portrayed in the video. We have found the process of training students to perform these initial screenings to be mutually beneficial to the students, as well as the agencies which enable them.