Exhibit 20.1


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Intelli-Check Contact: Frank Mandelbaum, 516-992-1900
Investor Contact: John Baldissera, BPC Financial Marketing, 800-368-1217
Media Contact: Caroline Grossman, 781-771-5579

             Intelli-Check Appoints Ashok Rao to Board of Directors

WOODBURY, New York (December 9, 2004) - Intelli-Check, Inc., a leader in
advanced identification-document-verification systems, announced today that
Ashok Rao has been appointed a company director for a three-year term, effective
December 3, 2004.

"Ashok is an accomplished entrepreneur, having been the founder and driving
force behind four successful high-tech startups, one of which he took public in
1995," said Frank Mandelbaum, chairman and chief executive officer of
Intelli-Check. "On behalf of the entire board of directors, I'd like to welcome
Ashok. We are very pleased that he has agreed to put his considerable expertise,
experience, and energy to work on behalf Intelli-Check's shareholders,
customers, and employees."

Currently an angel investor in numerous high-tech start-ups as well as the
producer of a major motion picture scheduled for worldwide release in April
2005, Mr. Rao was CEO of Prime Wave Communications, a broadband wireless access
technology subsidiary of L3 from 2000 to 2003. Previously, he was founding chief
executive officer of Trex Communications, a Thermo Electron satellite
communications business, which reached revenues of $60 million in two years. He
was instrumental in the sale of TrexCom to L3 in 2000. Mr. Rao holds a
bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from the Indian Institute of
Technology, New Delhi, a master's degree in systems engineering from Marquette
University, and a diploma in Financial Management from the London School of
Economics. Mr. Rao is also a trustee of numerous charitable organizations.

About Intelli-Check, Inc.
Intelli-Check, Inc. is the acknowledged leader in technology that assures the
authenticity of driver licenses, state issued non-driver and military
identification cards used as proof of identity. Our patented ID-CHECK technology
instantly reads, analyzes, and verifies the encoded data in magnetic stripes and
barcodes on government-issue IDs from approximately 60 jurisdictions in the U.S.
and Canada to determine if the content and format is valid. Applications
include:

      o     security and access control to protect airports, government and
            commercial buildings, military installations, and other critical
            sites

      o     identity theft, commercial and government fraud prevention to help
            stem the millions of dollars each year in losses from credit card,
            check-cashing, bank, insurance, healthcare and pharmacy fraud

      o     age verification to protect bars and other retail establishments
            from the potential fines and penalties associated with selling
            age-restricted products to minors

      o     productivity enhancement to eliminate inefficiencies and
            inaccuracies associated with manual data entry

The company has been the national testing laboratory for the American
Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators (AAMVA) since 1999 and has access to
all the currently encoded driver license formats. For more information, visit
www.intellicheck.com.