Intelli-Check Reappointed for an Additional Two Years as Testing Lab for American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators -AAMVA-
WOODBURY, N.Y.--March 5, 2002--INTELLI-CHECK, INC. (AMEX:IDN), a developer of advanced document verification systems, announced today that it has been reappointed as the official testing laboratory for AAMVAnet, Inc., the technical arm of the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators (AAMVA).Intelli-Check will continue to provide all testing services for AAMVA under a new two-year memorandum of understanding. The AAMVA establishes guidelines for driver licenses and non-driver identification cards that contain encoded information on magnetic stripes and barcodes.
"Intelli-Check has been AAMVA's testing laboratory since November 1999 and the reappointment reflects the organization's continued confidence in our testing standards and expertise with driver licenses," stated Frank Mandelbaum, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Company. "AAMVA's relationship with Intelli-Check reinforces the Company's position as the leading authority on reading and verifying data in driver licenses," Mr. Mandelbaum said. "Intelli-Check's technological expertise in providing critical testing services of encoded data has proven to be invaluable to the issuing authorities."
Mr. Mandelbaum noted that new attention is being focused on the driver license, the most common form of identification available, as part of the effort to increase homeland security and combat crime in commercial transactions. "Intelli-Check's expertise as an authority on document verification will assist AAMVA in its goal of enhancing the security of these documents," Mr. Mandelbaum said.
Intelli-Check, Inc. (www.intellicheck.com) is a developer and marketer of an advanced state-of-the-art document verification system for authenticating the validity of driver licenses and ID cards used as proof of identity. Intelli-Check's multi-purpose ID-CHECK(R) units are fully capable of increasing security and as a tool that can be used to deter terrorism at military installations, high profile buildings, airports and other sites and are also an effective tool against "identity theft," which often is supported by fake IDs and is the fastest growing crime in the U.S. ID-CHECK(R) units enable a user to prevent economic loss from check-cashing, credit card and various other frauds utilizing fake IDs and to determine whether purchasers of age-restricted products such as alcohol and tobacco meet minimum age requirements for their sale. ID-CHECK(R), with its patented technology, analyzes and displays information encoded in magnetic stripes and barcodes found on driver licenses, military identification and other forms of state and government-issued identification from more than 50 jurisdictions.