U.S. Department of Justice 

Federal Bureau of Investigation 

Criminal Justice Information Services Division 

CJIS INFORMATION LETTER
	 July 2019
	

Final Disposition Report R-84 has been revised 

To comply with the Office of Management and Budget’s Paperwork 

Reduction Act, staff at the Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) 

Division revised the Final Disposition Report, also known as the R-84, 

in October 2018. Changes included the addition of a column to signify 

if a court offense is a misdemeanor or a felony, a column to specify the 

relationship to the victim, and a column to indicate if the offense is drug 

related. 

The fillable two-page R-84 is available electronically at https://www.fbi. 

gov/file-repository/final-1110-0051_r-84-01.pdf/view. The submitting 

agency should complete the disposition information for the date the 

individual was arrested. Required information on the R-84 is the: 

 Name (last, first, and middle) on the fingerprint card submitted to

the FBI

 Individual’s date of birth

 Submitting agency’s Originating Agency Identifier (ORI)

 Name, city, and state of the submitting agency

 Court Offense Literal (COL)—the charge at the time of the

disposition
	

 Court Provision Literal (CPL) Disposition

 Disposition Maintenance Required.

Agencies are encouraged to include the following optional information on 

the R-84: 

 FBI number (also known as the Universal Control Number, or

UCN), if known

 State Bureau Number (SID)

 Contributing/Arresting Agency ORI

 Offense(s) charged at arrest

 Individual’s Social Security Number

 Court Charge Number

 Indication if the offense is a felony or a misdemeanor

 Relationship to the victim

 If the offense is drug related.

In This Issue: 

• Final Disposition Report

R-84 has been revised

• Enhancement to L0008

reject responses

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Help desk by telephone at 

(888) 334-4536. 

In addition, this CJIS 

Information Letter will be sent 

to CJIS Systems Officers, 

State Identification Bureaus, 

and Compact Council 

members via e-mail and will 

be posted in the Highlights 

section upon its initial release. 

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The agency should send the completed R-84 form to the FBI, CJIS Division, Clarksburg, WV, 26306; by e-mail 

to R84@fbi.gov; or by facsimile to 304-625-9896. 

In order to assist with outreach efforts, division staff created 10 addendums to accompany the R-84. Each 

addendum is a one-page narrative questionnaire that correlates to a request for additional, more specific 

information. 

Addendum Purpose 

R-84 (a) Request for additional disposition information 

R-84 (b) Warrant information 

R-84 (c) Alcohol or drug related charges information 

R-84 (d) Mental concerns 

R-84 (e) Military information 

R-84 (f) Protection order information 

R-84 (g) Potential violence relationship information 

R-84 (h) Indictment information 

R-84 (i) Probation information 

R-84 (j) Guilty plea information 

CJIS Division staff will contact the submitting agency and provide a cover sheet and the applicable 

addendum(s) as part of its outreach efforts. The submitting agency should return the completed addendum(s) 

to the e-mail or facsimile number provided on the cover sheet and not to the e-mail address or facsimile on the 

R-84. In addition, division staff will provide the submitting agency with a 14-digit routing number on the bottom 

of the cover sheet and on the bottom of each addendum. Agencies should ensure the 14-digit routing number 

is visible on all documents pertaining to the addendum(s) so the information is routed to the correct staff at the 

CJIS Division. 

Agencies with questions should contact the Biometric Support Unit by telephone at 304-625-9409. 

Enhancement to L0008 reject responses 

On March 23, 2018, the CJIS Division implemented an enhancement to the Next Generation Identification 

(NGI) System for L0008 reject responses by modifying the reject responses when a possible biographic data 

match has been found with the caveat “The quality of the characteristics is too low to be used. Candidate(s) 

were found. Please resubmit a new set of fingerprints for comparison to the candidate(s).” 

The CJIS Division, as a result of the enhancement, will process the NGI reject responses of L0008 as follows: 

 Caveat states: “The quality of the characteristics is too low to be used. Candidate(s) were found.

Please resubmit a new set of fingerprints for comparison to the candidates(s).” When the contributor

receives this response after two submissions, a name check request can be submitted via e- mail to

<AP_Team@leo.gov>. The request must include the two rejected Transaction Control Numbers. CJIS

staff will attempt a comparison manually and return an e-mail response indicating ident, non-ident, or a

reject. If positive identification, the Identity History Summary (IdHS) will be an attachment to the e-mail.

 Caveat states: “The quality of the characteristics is too low to be used.” When the contributor receives

this response, it should be treated the same as the current name check response, “no record based on

descriptive data.” A name check request should not be submitted as the CJIS staff will no longer process

the name check.

The CJIS Division will no longer process a name check for the correctable reject responses below. If an agency 

receives one of the reject codes, the submission will not be included in the NGI System, and the agency should 

resubmit better quality fingerprints. 

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Reject Code Description 

L0116 Fingerprint pattern(s) not discernible. 

L0117 Insufficient pattern area(s) recorded for identification purposes. 

L0118 

Erroneous or incomplete fingerprint(s) on images: fingers or hands out 

of sequence, printed twice, missing, and no reason given. 

L0185 

Rolled and/or plain fingerprint block(s) contain multiple images. See 

finger(s): 

L0186 

Rolled and/or plain fingerprint image appears to be from multiple 

subjects. See finger(s): 

L0187 

Plain impressions are not printed simultaneously and/or same hand 

printed twice in plains. See finger(s): 

L0188 

Fingerprint image contains shadowing/gray areas with ridge detail 

throughout or surrounding the pattern area. See finger(s): 

L0189 

Fingerprint image contains text and/or lines running through the pattern 

area. See finger(s): 

L0191 

Fingerprint images not visible/printed in the plain impression block(s). 

Unable to determine correct sequence. See finger(s): 

The above changes to the NGI reject responses will become effective immediately. Any agency that would 

like to request an extension to modify its current system(s), which may automatically resubmit NGI 

Response rejects, may e-mail <CK_RAID@fbi.gov>. 

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