ROSCOMMON COUNTY- Approximately 200 students from Roscommon Elementary, COOR ISD, Collins Elementary, Our Lady of the Lake, and Charleston Heston Academy took part in the annual fingerprinting program offered by the Roscommon County Sheriff Department. This program is geared primarily toward kindergarten children, so parents have this crucial information at the beginning of their child’s school years.
Sheriff officers, Sheriff’s Auxiliary, and the Victims Services Unit assisted in the fingerprinting and gathering of DNA. Parents give permission to the schools to allow their child/children to take part in the program. As mandated by state law, these kits are then sent home for safekeeping by the custodial parents or legal guardian. No agency is permitted to retain any of the information gathered.
Michigan enacted the Child Identification and Protection Act, #176 in 1985, as a means of helping parents and police agencies to identify a child that may have been abducted or is missing. According to the Missing and Abducted Children/Child Crime Prevention Center, approximately 840,000 children are reported missing each year.
