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Who, What, Where & how Around the Parks

Your Finger, Please
Biometric identification takes over in Montgomery
County, Maryland, recreation centers

I

n Montgomery County, Maryland, shooting some hoops or
swimming a few laps will soon
require a biometric ID scan.
Starting this fall, residents
entering recreational facilities in this
Washington, D.C., suburb will, instead of
swiping ID cards, hold out their fingers
to a computer-mouse-sized scanner.
County officials say the move away from
card swipe entry will reduce recreation
department costs by $50,000 per year.
The scanners do not fingerprint
people in the same way that police

fingerprint those charged with crimes.
Finger vein scanners use near-infrared
light to take an image of the vein patterns
in an entrant's fingers. (The device reads
those vein patterns by reacting to hemoglobin in the blood.) The scanned image
is then converted to both photo and bar
code. A " match " with the individual record on file permits entrance.
The cost of one card scanner is about
$2,000 (with each of the 90,000 cards in
circulation costing $1.50)-whereas the
county plans to pay about $100 for each
biometric vein scanner.

The switch won't happen all at once.
The finger scanners will appear this fall
at one aquatic center, one senior center, and one community recreation center. The goal, according to Montgomery
County officials, is to have the biometric
scanners operating at all 33 recreation
centers within a year.
The use of biometric technology for
entrants affects only those citizens who
hold subscription passes to the county's recreation centers. In the past, the
policy has been that those who did not
have their swipe cards were required
to pay the regular one-time admission
fee. Now, subscribers will have fingers
scanned to take advantage of their subscription pass savings.
Judy Stiles, spokeswoman for the
Montgomery County Recreation Department, commented that the new policy will offer not just cost savings for the
county, but speed and simplicity of access for recreational facility users. She
added that the only information requested is the customer's name, contact information, emergency contacts and type
of membership-and that County residents' fingerprint records will not be
shared with state or federal law enforcement agencies.
High-tech solutions and county assurances notwithstanding, some residents
say the move is simply ill-advised. A
personal trainer living in Montgomery
County wonders, " Why has Montgomery
County selected this initiative, which has
obvious privacy considerations, for relatively small savings? "
Trend or one-off practice? Montgomery County will know soon enough. 
-Maureen Hannan

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