More than 100 children in Hannibal, Missouri, signed up for the free MoChip Child ID Program on August 18, 2018. The program provides digital photos, fingerprints and dental bite impressions on a CD, along with personal and emergency information on an ID card.
The El Paso, Texas, Sheriff's Office registered children with AMBER Alert cards on July 10, 2018. This information can be used if a child is reported missing or abducted, and includes a color photo, fingerprints and identifying information about the child.
Free child identification kits were also distributed on July 17 at a fair in Ionia, Michigan. The process creates a flash drive with a photo, video, digital fingerprints and other vital information. A child ID event was also held that same week in Bridgman, Michigan. To date, more than 90,000 Michigan children have participated in the state's Child Identification Program.
In Birmingham, Alabama, a Ford dealership decided to celebrate its 100th anniversary by holding a fingerprinting and child safety program through Operation Kidsafe. Adamson Ford held the event in February 2018 and ID cards were created for more than 150 children.
The Wilmington Blue Rocks in Delaware held a baseball clinic on August 20, 2017, distributing information about internet safety and child ID kits that can be used to provide information for an AMBER Alert and all missing child incidents. The Beau Biden Foundation for the Protection of Children and the Cal Ripken Sr. Foundation also hosted the event.