The Moose Association
teamed up with the Nitro Police Department and the Safe Surfing Foundation to
help keep kids safe.
They offered Child ID
kits to the public.
"If you have a
child that gets lost or gets hurt or something, one of the first things that is
asked of the parent is what does the child look like, how tall is he, how much
does the child weigh, what color is the hair, what color are the eyes," said
Jim Hale of Moose International. "All of
this information will be right there on the CD."
Volunteers sit down with
children and ask all of those questions and fingerprint them and that
information is burned onto a CD and given to the parents. Parents say having that information on hand
means a lot.
"A life time of
better resting, because you know you have all of that information right there
if you're in a crisis," said Laurie Elkins of Nitro.
Laurie's son, Isaac says
the process was pretty painless. "They
asked me what was my middle name, what was my nickname, what was my first name
and what was my last name," said Isaac.
Laurie hopes this kind
of technology will prevent crimes against children from happening to begin
with.
"The more
mainstream that these types of activities become where people can just have all
of this information readily available, then hopefully it would deter people,"
said Elkins.
Laurie can leave the
Nitro Police Department with a little more peace of mind, and Isaac left even
safer than he was before he walked in.
Once all of the information
is burned onto the C-D, volunteers delete all of it from their computers.
One C-D can be made per
family, or each child can have their own.
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