Trinity Property Consultants Faces Employee Biometrics Lawsuit

Trinity Property Consultants LLC and Pacific Personnel Services Inc. must face claims that they collected and stored employee fingerprints without their permission in violation of Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act, after a federal judge refused to dismiss the proposed class action.

Isidro Calonia alleged that Trinity, a property management company in Irvine, Calif., and Pacific, which provides payroll services to Trinity, didn’t obtain employee consent before collecting and storing their fingerprints, nor did it provide a publicly available data retention and destruction schedule, as required under the act.

Trinity and Pacific argued in their motion to dismiss that all employees ...