The Texas Department of Public Safety in Austin, Texas, won the FBI’s 2017 Biometric Identification Award for its use of the Next Generation Identification (NGI) System to solve a child pornography investigation by identifying the subject through a picture of a fingerprint seen within a digital pornographic image.
The FBI Biometric Identification Award is presented each year to an outstanding law enforcement officer or agency that has solved a major case using the NGI System.
