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To: Lane3 who wrote (22223)	8/16/2001 7:56:21 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) of 82486

There are some interesting doings in DC regarding IDs for school kids. Something in here for everyone to like or dislike... Schwartz Questions Child ID Proposal ACLU Also Raises Privacy Concerns By Robert O'Harrow Jr. and Sewell Chan Washington Post Staff Writers Thursday, August 16, 2001; Page B01 A key member of the D.C. Council said yesterday that her committee would hold a hearing about a proposed high-tech identification program, as some officials and civil libertarians criticized the plans to take digital photographs and fingerprints of schoolchildren this fall. <snip> <snip> Schwartz's comments followed an article in The Washington Post that described the plan of Mayor Anthony A. Williams's administration to collect names, home addresses and other personal information from children with the permission of their parents. The children's data would be fed into a central computer maintained by the Department of Motor Vehicles, which would issue ID cards containing bar codes that could be scanned by authorities. Schwartz's committee will hold the hearing on the initiative because it oversees the DMV. Officials at Polaroid ID Systems, which is helping the District with the technology, said the program would be the most sophisticated of its kind in the nation. Initially, city officials said the system would be used to improve the search for missing children, by giving authorities quicker access to identifying information. In interviews, officials acknowledged that they hope to use the ID system to improve social services by tracking young people at schools and in public assistance programs. A Polaroid official said yesterday that a company sales representative broached the idea of the child ID program 18 months ago during discussions with the District about the DMV's digital licensing system. Polaroid spokesman Roy Nilson said the ID program was offered as an added security feature. <snip> washingtonpost.com

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