The identa-pad was a device carried by officers of the Hill Valley Police Department in 2015 to verify a person's identity.

The subject's thumb would be pressed against a pad on the device, and their details read aloud in the following order: 'Name'; 'Date of Birth'; 'Address'; 'Arrests'; 'Warrants'; and 'Convictions'.

Officers Reese and Foley used an identa-pad to identify the tranquilized Jennifer Parker of 1985 and, having concluded that she was the Jennifer of 2015, took her home to the McFly residence.

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Behind the scenes

• The identa-pad is never referred to by name, either in the movie or in the novelization, and is never seen in detail on-screen, so it remains unclear as to whether the device had a screen on which the subject's details were also displayed.
• The name 'identa-pad' is used for the first and only time in a full colour design drawing of a Hill Valley Police appointment belt, which appears on page 73 of Back to the Future: The Official Book of the Complete Movie Trilogy. The drawing also points out other equipment on the belt: 'mini-strobes'; 'taser and flash-light'; 'nightstick'; and 'storage and power unit'.

Appearances

• Back to the Future Part II
• Back to the Future: The Official Book of the Complete Movie Trilogy (First identified as 'identa-pad')