ChoicePoint's VitalChek Signs Applicant Authentication Agreement with 100th Government Agency

VitalChek Network Inc. a ChoicePoint® company and America's leading source for government-issued birth certificates and other vital records, has signed its 100th government agreement with the Larimer County Health Department in Fort Collins, CO., to provide ChoicePoint's ProCheck and ProID® knowledge-based authentication products.

Brentwood, TN (Issues Wire / PRWEB) January 4, 2008 -- VitalChek Network Inc. (vitalchek.com), a ChoicePoint (NYSE: CPS) company and America's leading source for government-issued birth certificates and other vital records, has signed its 100th government agreement with the Larimer County Health Department in Fort Collins, Colo., to provide ChoicePoint's ProCheck and ProID knowledge-based authentication products. The products will assist in efforts to reduce identity theft for birth certificate or other vital record requests. In addition, Larimer County also will use express certificate services offered through VitalChek.

"ProCheck and ProID helps to ensure that your personal information is protected," said Billy Burn, VitalChek vice president of sales. "Customers may safely and conveniently order vital records online 24 hours a day, seven days a week."

Some of our customers are in situations where they have lost documents due to fire and storms and need to re-establish their identities, and VitalChek allows them to do that.

"We have been increasing the requirements for identification to protect our customers from identity theft," said Ron Hyman, state registrar of vital events for the State of Colorado. "Some of our customers are in situations where they have lost documents due to fire and storms and need to re-establish their identities, and VitalChek allows them to do that."

VitalChek's state-of-the-art applicant verification methods make it safe and convenient to order official copies of vital documents, including birth and death certificates, and marriage and divorce records via the Internet. The ProCheck service verifies the actual existence of a person trying to place an order and helps spot fraudulent identities, while ProID generates an interactive verification quiz that ensures that the person placing an order is whom they claim to be.

Larimer County is the 100th government agency to use VitalChek authentication services. Other agencies using VitalChek authentication services include Virginia Vital Records, New Mexico Vital Records, Colorado Department of Health and Cook County Vital Records, which provides birth certificates for the city of Chicago.

VitalChek Network Inc., a ChoicePoint Company, is America's first online remote ordering service for life's important documents. For almost 20 years, VitalChek has provided an affordable, easy and reliable way to obtain official government vital records as an official service provider for more than 600 government agencies throughout the United States and U.S. Territories, safely delivering millions of important documents every year. VitalChek is the preferred source for online birth certificates for congressional offices, passport acceptance agencies, travel agencies, major airlines and cruise lines, post offices, school administrators, tour operators, department of defense and military recruiters, sports organizations, hospitals, public health agencies and courts and social services agencies. Additional information is available at vitalchek.com.

About ChoicePoint:
ChoicePoint (NYSE: CPS) provides businesses, government agencies and non-profit organizations with technology, software, information and marketing services to help manage economic and physical risks as well as identify business opportunities. Consumers have free access to the reports we create at ChoiceTrust.com. Learn what we do to protect consumer privacy by visiting PrivacyatChoicePoint.com and, for more information on our company, go to ChoicePoint.com.

ChoicePoint, ProCheck and ProID are registered trademarks of ChoicePoint Asset Company.

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