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Welfare Recipients May Get Fingers Dirty

February 13, 1997
By: Renee Basick
State Capital Bureau

If you collect welfare, you may have to get your fingers dirty. Renee Basick reports from Jefferson City.

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The Missouri Social Services Department wants to fingerprint any citizen who seeks public aid.

The proposal is designed to enforce the national timelimits on welfare.

The federal welfare reform act passed last year restricts individuals from receiving aid for more than five years during their life.

But, Deborah Jacobs, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union in East Missouri, says fingerprinting is a breech of rights.

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Contents: Jacobs says poor people are not Criminals.

Missouri Highway Patrol Captain, Clarence Greeno, says the only reason they want to be involved is to save money by combining the two fingerprint databases, not to access records.