NCMEC Honors ChoicePoint® with Corporate Leadership Award

WASHINGTON, D.C. – May 23, 2002 – ChoicePoint (NYSE: CPS) today received the Corporate Leadership Award from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) at the organization’s seventh annual awards program.

NCMEC each year honors law enforcement officers, other individuals, corporations and nonprofit organizations who have worked to improve children’s welfare around the world. Associate Attorney General Jay Stephens presided over the presentation of the award to ChoicePoint Chairman and CEO Derek Smith during a ceremony at the Department of Justice. ChoicePoint also was honored during a breakfast for Congressional leaders this morning.

“ChoicePoint is proud to be partners with NCMEC in protecting and serving our most vulnerable population, our nation’s children,” Smith said. “Since 2000, ChoicePoint and NCMEC have located or recovered more than 770 children, many of whom now are adults and had been missing for five years or more.”

NCMEC President Ernie Allen praised ChoicePoint’s strong history of helping to recover missing children through the ADAM program and the AutoTrackXP® system. The ADAM program uses fax and wireless components to transmit visual and text messages to law enforcement officers, hospitals, shelters or other service providers as soon as possible after a child is reported missing. AutoTrackXP provides Internet access to more than 14 billion current and historical public records to aid in the search for a missing child.

Allen said ChoicePoint was recognized also for the initiative it has demonstrated in developing VolunteerSelect ^SM, a low-cost background screening service for nonprofit organizations that use volunteers to serve children and other vulnerable populations. Pilot-tested at 25 Boys and Girls Club of America locations nationwide, VolunteerSelect has been adopted by the Boys and Girls Clubs nationwide and was made available to any interested nonprofit organization on May 1, 2002.

ChoicePoint also is working on an agreement with NCMEC through which The Bode Technology Group, a ChoicePoint company, could provide DNA testing services to NCMEC’s Cold Case Unit, helping to identify the remains of children who have been missing for extended periods of time.