CJIS Fingerprinting Scheduled Change January, 2010

According to Sgt. Jimmy Russell of the Licensing Division of the Maryland State Police, CJIS has mandated that no more hard cards will be accepted after January, 2010. All fingerprint submissions will be via LiveScan.
While there are a number of issues to be worked out, there are currently 7 locations throughout the state set up for LiveScan fingerprinting, Private detectives, security guards and security systems technicians will no longer submit the fees to the state police for fingerprinting. The fingerprint fees will be paid to the location at the time of the fingerprinting. The cost for FBI and CJIS fingerprinting is expected to be $55.25 to as much as $60.00. A copy of the receipt for the LiveScan fingerprinting is to be submitted with the applications.
The Licensing Division is expecting submission of the application and the receipt within 24 hours of submitting the fingerprints. The FBI has told the Division that they expect the turn around time to be within 24 hours.
At of this writing, you have to make an appointment through the CJIS website to have the LiveScan fingerprints. It should also be noted that a few of the MVA locations showing LiveScan ability do not yet have the machines installed. One of those is the Bel Air MVA.
Licensing Division representatives will be meeting with the FBI, CJIS, representatives from Delaware and Virginia on November 19th. More information will be available after that.