L-1 subsidiary IBT strikes deal to register Florida insurance agents

Ah, Florida, heaven’s waiting room for millions of New York retirees. To steal a quote from Walt Whitman, the Sunshine State contains multitudes. Multitudes, that is, of insurance agents. The state proccesses nearly 70,000 licensing applications annually and has turned to Integrated Biometric Technology (IBT) to install a new, fingerprint-based system to help manage the process. IBT, one of three certified to offer livescan technology in Florida, will install an automated applicant processing system that will log and administer fingerprints, including procurement, fee collection, and financial reconciliation and invoice payments. The five-year contract is worth $22 million, and the program is estimated to be fully operational by early 2007.

It should not go unremarked that this is just the latest in a string of Florida successes for parent company L-1 Identity Solutions. Other deals includes include:

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* St. Petersburg-Clearwater International Airport uses the Identix Live Scan TouchPrint 2000 Applicant Fingerprint System to assist in complying with the employee background check requirements of the Aviation and Transportation Security Act

* The Florida Supreme Court uses Identix Biometric Security Solutions to secure the District Court of Appeals and Supreme Court WAN Enterprise

* The Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office utilizes the Viisage face recognition technology and Mobile Identification System to identify and verify known offenders, and has expanded this program on a statewide basis to include the Florida Department of Corrections, Florida Department of Law Enforcement, seven Florida Regional Terrorism Task Forces, and various county sherrif departments

* The Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles uses Viisage iA-thenticate, an automatic document authentication technology to ensure that state driver’s licenses are issued only to the rightful owners

-read more in this company news release