IDENT is a mission operational system for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that compares a subject’s fingerprints against stored records used to determine a subject’s identity. The IDENT database stores over 150 million individual fingerprint records and other biometric data for criminal matters, domestic and international fugitives, known immigration violators, known or suspected terrorists, legitimate travellers to the U.S., naturalized citizens, sexual offenders, subjects inadmissible to the U.S., and visa applicants (not an exhaustive list). Approximately 70% of fingerprint records contained in IDENT are not duplicated in any other AFIS database. (OSAC Crime Scene/Death Investigation Committee)