Town to resume fingerprinting June 25
GREENWICH — As the state partially reopens from coronavirus lockdown orders and also due to a recent court decision, fingerprinting services will once again be offered to the public by the Greenwich Police Department.
The department announced it will be resuming public fingerprinting on June 25, by appointment only.
Beginning Monday, the GPD General Services
Division will accept telephone requests for fingerprinting appointments. The phone number to call, 203-622-8024, will be open from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. to make appointments.
Walk-ins will not be permitted, and facial coverings are required to enter Police Headquarters at 11 Bruce Place.
The department stopped doing fingerprinting services in March due to concerns over spreading the coronavirus.
In the state of Connecticut,
fingerprints must be taken by local police for a background check in order to secure a handgun permit. A gun rights organization had pushed to reactivate fingerprinting services, over the objections of Gov. Ned Lamont, and a federal judge agreed earlier this week that fingerprinting should resume .
The Connecticut Citizens Defense League said the indefinite suspension of fingerprinting violated the Second Amendment rights of citizens.
Lamont said this week he made the order with the aim of preventing the spread of coronavirus — “Every executive order I did was in the name of public health.”
The state also requires people working in the fields of security and education to have their fingerprints on file.
For more information on fingerprinting in Greenwich, visit: www.greenwichct.gov/426/ Public-Fingerprinting