The Ohio Attorney General’s Bureau of Criminal Investigation (BCI) will celebrate its 95th anniversary in September. The bureau started in 1921 as a record-keeping facility operated by the Department of Public Welfare. By 1924, a superintendent, one assistant, and a corps of inmates from the Ohio State Penitentiary had become the caretakers of criminal identification and fingerprint records, which they would make available to law enforcement agencies. The bureau moved to the Department of Mental Hygiene and Corrections and then to the Department of Corrections. In 1963, it became part of the Attorney General’s Office.