The kits are created by the National Child Identification Program, which told CNN the idea originated following the case of Amber Hagerman, a Texas 9-year-old who was abducted and murdered in 1996 ...

Dallas ISD started distributing the ID kits this week. The Texas Education Agency has provided grant funding to distribute child ID kits in the state like the one pictured from the National Child ...

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(The Texas Tribune/ProPublica ... who voted against Campbell’s bill that established the child identification kit funding four years ago. The newsrooms attempted to reach a handful of ...

For months, Texas lawmakers were on track to spend millions of taxpayer dollars to continue distributing child identification kits to Texas schoolchildren, a program championed by state officials.

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. Texas legislators slipped millions for child ID kits into a 1,000-page ...

For months, Texas lawmakers were on track to spend millions of taxpayer dollars to continue distributing child identification kits to Texas schoolchildren, a program championed by state officials.