Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt is seeking President Trump’s support for Federal Funding to support State efforts to protect children from exploitation, abduction and human trafficking.
Schmidt joined 19 other State Attorney General’s in asking the President to support funding to purchase kits utilized by the National Child ID Program. More than 800,000 children go missing, nationally, ear year, including runaways and those who are abducted.
Since 1997, the National Child ID Program has distributed more than 54 million kits, allowing parents to collect and maintain physical characteristics, fingerprints and DNA of their children. The National Child ID Act would amend Federal Law to allow the State Attorney General to request Federal Grant Funds to purchase kits for children in grades kindergarten through sixth. The National Child ID Program has asked Congress to set aside nearly $52 Million in the next COVID 19 Stimulus Package to fund the purchase of 30 million kits.
