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Forensic phone software already paying off, fingerprint system installed

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By BARBARA GREEN
editor@bowienewsonline.com
New forensic equipment at the Montague County Sheriff’s office has been operational for less than a month and has already helped confirm a burglary and theft suspect in two separate cases.
Sheriff Marshall Thomas and Sgt./Investigator Ethan Romine showed off the new automated fingerprint identification system. AFIS the automated biometric identification system was installed at the sheriff’s office in the last two weeks. It includes a 27-inch monitor, scanner and CPU all part of the package, and they added a 50-inch monitor mounted on the wall in the fingerprint office to enhance examination.
The fingerprinting system joins a trio of cell phone programs that can help unlock, extract data and refine that data into a readable format. The staff has been using CellHawk, a software that takes cell phone data and breaks it down to not only call logs but mapping, detailed connections with callers and much more.

Read the full story in the weekend Bowie News.

Montague County Sheriff’s Sgt./Investigator Ethan Romine explains the new AFIS fingerprint system now in operation at the sheriff’s office. (News photo by Barbara Green)
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City closes lake due to localized flooding

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Bowie School Board to review superintendent candidate applications

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Members of the Bowie Independent School District Board of Trustees will meet at 5:30 p.m. on June 16.
The big item on the agenda is the review of superintendent candidate applications and consider possible interview choice. Superintendent Blake Enlow resigned on May 23 and Assistant Superintendent Lee Ann Farris has been serving as the interim.
That item will be in executive session along with professional educator contracts that need to be considered.
On the regular agenda Farris will update the board on education bills passed by the 89th Texas Legislature and their budget impacts, as well as discipline impacts. A budget workshop will be considered. She also will provide information on state assessment and board goals.
Campus administrators and directors will provide updates, along with the finance director.
In action items the board will review Texas Association of School Board update 124, consider changes to the 12-month and 11 employee dates and consider the purchase of a new band trailer not to exceed $80,000.

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Bowie News will be 1 day late due to June 19 holiday

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Due to the June 19 Juneteenth federal holiday the U.S. Post Office will be closed, which moves then Thursday Bowie News to a delivery date on Friday. It will be available in the stores at its regular time.

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