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Iowa City Police to Switch to Electronic Fingerprinting: Iowa City Daily News Links, July 1

ALSO: The Chinese First Lady attends a Preucil School of Music concert, 21-year ordinance up for public vote again?, and abortion via video conference may be limited in Iowa.

A new month. A whole new batch of links.

On to the Links!

Josh O'Leary of the Iowa City Press-Citizen writes that the Iowa City Police Department is continuing to digitize, now intending to switch to an electronic finger print logging system.

Iowa City voters will likely be able to vote on the 21-only ordinance again. (the Gazette)

A cool story by Tara Bannow on the Preucil School of Music performance in China being attended by the Chinese First Lady. (Press-Citizen)

A little more info on the flood local option sales tax that is ending today in Iowa City. (the Gazette)

Alesha Crews of the Press-Citizen writes about the experience of trying out for the local roller derby team.

Aly Brown of the Press-Citizen made it down to Riverside's Trek Fest.

The director of the Iowa Police Project has stepped down. (Press-Citizen)

The Midwest and plains economy appears to remain strong. (Press-Citizen)

Eat more strawberries! (Des Moines Register)

A step may have been taken to ban abortions via videoconference in the state of Iowa. (Des Moines Register)

Daily Links Excerpt of the Day

The department is applying for grant money to purchase a LiveScan fingerprinting scanner that officials say will be an upgrade to efficiency and accuracy.

“It will cut down on our error rate,” Police Chief Sam Hargadine said. “Right now on our old-fashioned ink system, we’ve got a probably 85 to 90 percent (accuracy) rate when we send that card in. That’s the main reason why we want to update this technology.”

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Iowa City Police Sgt. Vicky Lalla said those arrested are fingerprinted at the county jail, but Iowa City officers take the prints of juveniles charged with aggravated misdemeanors and above at their station.

“Most everything is digital or electronic,” Lalla said of the department’s record keeping. “Officer reports are submitted and stored electronically, and we use digital cameras, which are submitted electronically. Paper is still used for things like written statements from witnesses.”

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