For the second time, lawmakers cut funding for kits meant to help find missing kids after ProPublica and The Texas Tribune ...

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Customs and Border Protection has swabbed the DNA of migrant children as young as 4, whose genetic data is uploaded to an FBI-run database that can track them if they commit crimes in the future.

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The Child Reunification Act would make child identification kits available to all parents for free. The kits have inkless finger printing materials, DNA collection swabs and other information that ...

The Allens' donation of $20,000 will buy Child Identification Kits for all 19,500 kindergarten and first-grade students in Lake, Porter and LaPorte County public schools this fall. The United Ways ...

The Keiser Police Department is unveiling a new way of identifying children. New child identification kits are available for ...

"What we're really trying to do is empower parents of first graders across the entire Commonwealth with a child identification kit," said state Sen. Scott Martin. Martin and state Sen. Camera ...

Pita Espinosa leads a group of young children in a song that teaches Spanish words at the Learning Tree child care center in Yoakum in 2022. (Annie Mulligan For The Texas Tribune, Annie Mulligan ...