Midwest Automated Fingerprint Identification Network (MAFIN)

The Midwest Automated Fingerprint Identification Network (MAFIN) is a shared regional database involving South Dakota, Minnesota (host computer site) and North Dakota.

The SD DCI became a member of the MAFIN in 1997 by operating as a remote site in an existing Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS) located at the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) in Saint Paul, MN.

The MAFIN system enables speedy comparison of fingerprints and detects matching records under alias names for all records among the three states.

The MAFIN database also contains latent prints left at crime scenes; all new arrest fingerprint searches go against that unsolved file as well as the normally stored images.