Sec. 2. Identification kits for missing children
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Section 402 of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 ( 34 U.S.C. 11291 ) is amended— in paragraph (6), by striking and at the end; in paragraph (7), by striking the period at the end and inserting a semicolon; and by adding after paragraph
(7)the following: the proactive collection and central storage of comprehensive identification information about individual children by local, State, and Federal law enforcement agencies is resource intensive; and the National Child Identification Program, known as Safety Blitz — is a national community service initiative that has partnered with the Department of Justice, Department of State, Federal Bureau of Investigation, local law enforcement agencies, nonprofit organizations, and community organizations to provide families with an inkless, in-home fingerprint and DNA identification kit, which can be turned over to law enforcement, by the parent or guardian of a child to provide information on a missing or trafficked child; and promotes the proactive collection and storage of comprehensive identification information within the home, decentralizing the process for law enforcement agencies that often lack the resources to collect and centrally store vital identification information related to individual children. . Section 405 of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 ( 34 U.S.C. 11294 ) is amended by— redesignating paragraphs (5), (6), (7), (8), and
(9)as paragraphs (6), (7), (8), (9), and (10), respectively; and inserting after paragraph
(4)the following: to provide to local law enforcement, for distribution to parents of children who attend kindergarten or elementary school (as such term is defined in section 8101 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965), inkless, in-home fingerprint and DNA identification kits, which can be turned over to Federal, State, tribal, or local law enforcement in an effort to locate and return missing or trafficked children; .
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