Schools in Texas are providing parents with free DNA and fingerprint identification kits, as part of a program to help identify missing children. While the law that created the program does not say ...

In the past, police would collect fingerprints of children to help identify them if they were lost or abducted. The process was time consuming and often officers and parents were smeared with ink ...

The state of Texas is sending public school students home with DNA kits designed to help their parents identify their children “in case of an emergency.” In 2021, the Texas state legislature passed ...

SAN ANTONIO — School districts across Texas have started sending students home with DNA test kits in an effort to help prepare law enforcement during emergency situations. Nearly 4 million of the ...

Texas public school students in grades kindergarten through eighth will be sent home with child identification kits in the coming weeks, according to reports. The kits allow parents to take, store and ...

Texas public schools are now sending kids home with DNA kits and fingerprint cards to identify children in an emergency, following multiple school shootings in the state. Parents of eligible K-6 ...

The state of Texas is sending public school students home with DNA kits designed to help their parents identify their children "in case of an emergency." In 2021, the Texas state legislature passed ...

Texas public school systems are set to distribute DNA and fingerprint identification kits to parents in case they need to provide them to law enforcement if kids go missing or in emergencies. The ...