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Fingerprint and palm-print databases

Other biometrics

Last reviewed: 2026-10-27Legal review: unverifiedCapability or investigative question
Evidence rule

This page is public-interest research. An argument grade is not a court finding. A watchdog page describes the device. It is not proof a Nevada agency bought it or turned a feature on. A product description is not a Nevada practice. Agencies are not merged: the City of Las Vegas Department of Public Safety, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, the Clark County School District, the City of Reno, and the Nevada Department of Public Safety stay separate. A hotlist hit is not a confirmed crime. Legal review of this page is unverified.

What it does

A fingerprint or palm-print database stores prints taken from a person, usually at booking, and compares a new print with that gallery. Livescan and AFIS are common names for the tools. An unattended public reader would be a different deployment from prints taken from someone who has been arrested.

Privacy watchdog concerns

No watchdog page is attached.

Constitutional issues

Unresolved question

No constitutional provision is attached. The factual record is not sufficient.

Warrant practice not established for a Nevada agency

Fingerprint and palm-print databases: These are ordinary booking tools in many departments, and this page still has no Nevada inventory, vendor, or policy. No constitutional theory is attached without that record.

No decision in this library decides a fingerprint or palm-print database. None is borrowed from the face question.

Statutes attached to read, not findings.

  • NRS Chapter 239. Nevada public-records law is the route to ask for contracts, policies, and logs. Citing it is not a finding that a surveillance practice is unlawful.

Nevada use

Not documented on this page. This page does not claim Nevada agencies lack booking prints. The inventory record is not here.

Not documented in this build. Not claimed as absent from Nevada. The record is simply not here.

See also: Multimodal biometric fusion

Next record

Fingerprint and palm-print databases: Do not treat booking prints as a public-camera face scan.

All devices. A document workflow for this page is not built. The arrest correction form is not a surveillance-document inbox. Corrections and source documents for this page follow the corrections policy. Corrections policy.