How will duplicate names be handled? In other words, if there are two people named John Smith on the GAL, how will I distinguish between them?
When you view or search for names on the GAL, you will see each person’s name and their agency name in parentheses. So to distinguish two people with the same name from different agencies, you can use the agency name. For two people with the same name within an agency, the information used to distinguish one from the other will be consistent with that used today. For example, if an agency has two people named John Smith, and the agency currently uses a middle initial to distinguish one John Smith from the other, the middle initial will appear on the expanded GAL.
