Essay Archive - Fingerprinting Kids
Fingerprinting Kids
Issue: Should parents voluntarily create detailed identification records
(including fingerprints) on their children in anticipation of possible
runaway problems or abductions? (1) Yes. You can never tell when terrible
things will happen to a child, so its best to be prepared. (2) No. The
vast majority of missing children are not abducted. Whether abducted or
not, fingerprinting will do no good. It wastes time and money and pushes
us that much closer to the creation of the Orwellian National Data Center
that Congress rejected fifteen years ago.
BACKGROUND: As of early 1983, 11 states had launched....
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