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From Staff Reports
It’s a situation that no parent ever wants to be a part of, but a child goes missing every 40 seconds in the United States. With more than 600,000 registered sex offenders in the country, time is critical when a child goes missing.
Endorsed by America’s Most Wanted host John Walsh, the LifePrint Child Safety Event will offer Biometric Fingerprinting and a DNA identification kit to parents on a first come, first serve basis from 9:30 a.m.-2 p.m. on Saturday at David McDavid’s Plano Lincoln Mercury.
Biometrics is currently used by federal agencies, law enforcement and the United States Military as the newest and most advanced technology available today for obtaining fingerprints. The biometric technology allows parents to submit their child’s fingerprints to the FBI database as soon as the child is reported missing. When the child’s fingerprints are entered into the FBI database, the fingerprints become immediately available to all law enforcement agencies throughout the U.S.
The LifePrint Child Safety Event will provide parents with free Biometric fingerprinting, a high-resolution full color digital photograph of the child, a free child safety journal (which will provide law enforcement officials with all the necessary vital information about the child) and a take-home DNA identification kit to keep.
