King County - File #: 2017-0484

• File #: 2017-0484
• Version: 3
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Passed
• File created: 11/20/2017
• In control: Budget and Fiscal Management Committee
• Final action: 3/12/2018
• Enactment #: 18674
• Title: AN ORDINANCE providing for the submission to the qualified electors of King County at a special election to be held in King County on August 7, 2018, of a proposition to support continuation of the regional automated fingerprint identification system, also known as AFIS, program by replacing authorization of an expiring property tax levy in excess of the levy limitation contained in chapter 84.55 RCW, for a consecutive six-year period, at a first year rate of not more than 3.5 cents per one thousand dollars of assessed valuation for collection beginning in 2019, with subsequent maximum levy collections being increased by the limit factor defined in chapter 84.55 RCW, as amended, for the purpose of funding the continued operation of the regional automated fingerprint identification system program and related technology and services, which maintains expanded crime scene and arrest identification capabilities, and provides for the research of new identification technologies for all local ...
• Sponsors: Claudia Balducci, Reagan Dunn, Kathy Lambert, Jeanne Kohl-Welles, Pete von Reichbauer
• Indexes: AFIS, Elections, Fingerprints
• Staff: Doss, Greg

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
3/12/2018	2	Metropolitan King County Council	Hearing Held
3/12/2018	2	Metropolitan King County Council	Passed as Amended	Pass
2/28/2018	2	Budget and Fiscal Management Committee	Recommended Do Pass Substitute	Pass
1/24/2018	1	Budget and Fiscal Management Committee	Deferred
1/22/2018	1	Metropolitan King County Council	Reintroduced
1/10/2018	1	Budget and Fiscal Management Committee	Deferred
11/21/2017	1	Budget and Fiscal Management Committee	Deferred
11/20/2017	1	Metropolitan King County Council	Introduced and Referred

Drafter
Clerk 03/13/2018
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AN ORDINANCE providing for the submission to the qualified electors of King County at a special election to be held in King County on August 7, 2018, of a proposition to support continuation of the regional automated fingerprint identification system, also known as AFIS, program by replacing authorization of an expiring property tax levy in excess of the levy limitation contained in chapter 84.55 RCW, for a consecutive six-year period, at a first year rate of not more than 3.5 cents per one thousand dollars of assessed valuation for collection beginning in 2019, with subsequent maximum levy collections being increased by the limit factor defined in chapter 84.55 RCW, as amended, for the purpose of funding the continued operation of the regional automated fingerprint identification system program and related technology and services, which maintains expanded crime scene and arrest identification capabilities, and provides for the research of new identification technologies for all local criminal justice agencies in King County.
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STATEMENT OF FACTS:
1. To expand and enhance upon the limited identification services provided by individual city and county law enforcement agencies or at the state level, in 1986 the voters of King County approved funding for the purchase of a shared regional automated fingerprint identification system ("AFIS") computer, which matches unknown fingerprints to known fingerprints. King County's AFIS database holds over eight hundred thousand individual's fingerprint records, over four hundred thousand palmprint records and unidentified crime scene prints from approximately twenty-six thousand cases. The King County AFIS is a regional system with program services available to every city and unincorporated area in King County.
2. The AFIS computer is used for two primary purposes:
a. To quickly identify arrested individuals, and prevent the wrongful release of those who use false names to evad...