REPORT ON THE CONSISTENCY OF REPORTING OF FINGER-PRINT CARDS AND FINAL DISPOSITION FORMS TO THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION.

SEC. 555. REPORT ON THE CONSISTENCY OF REPORTING OF FINGER-PRINT CARDS AND FINAL DISPOSITION FORMS TO THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION. (a) Report.— The Secretary of Defense shall submit to Congress a report on the consistency with which fingerprint cards and final disposition forms, as described in Criminal Investigations Policy Memorandum 10 issued by the Defense Inspector General on March 25, 1987, are reported by the Defense Criminal Investigative Organizations to the Federal Bureau of Investigation for inclusion in the Bureau’s criminal history identification files. The report shall be prepared in consultation with the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. (b) Matters To Be Included.— In the report, the Secretary shall— (1) survey fingerprint cards and final disposition forms filled out in the past 24 months by each investigative organization; (2) compare the fingerprint cards and final disposition forms filled out to all judicial and nonjudicial procedures initiated as a result of actions taken by each investigative service in the past 24 months; (3) account for any discrepancies between the forms filled out and the judicial and nonjuaicial procedures initiated; (4) compare the fingerprint cards and final disposition forms filled out with the information held by the Federal Bureau of Investigation criminal history identification files; (5) identify any weaknesses in the collection of fingerprint cards and final disposition forms and in the reporting of that information to the Federal Bureau of Investigation; and (6) determine whether or not other law enforcement activities of the military services collect and report such information or, if not, should collect and report such information. (c) Submission of Report.— The report shall be submitted not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this Act. (d) Definition.— For the purposes of this section, the term “criminal history identification files”, with respect to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, means the criminal history record system maintained by the Federal Bureau of Investigation based on finger-print identification and any other method of positive identification.