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The two systems, called "The Child Project" and "Senior Safety Net," use iris recognition software to enroll children and senior citizens to make identification easier if they become lost.
Counties in 40 states have already implemented iris recognition software but Scott County is the first sheriff's office in Missouri to do so, Walter said in a news release Tuesday.
The system also helps law enforcement track and monitor convicted sex offenders in Scott County.
The equipment, developed by Biometric Intelligence & Identification Technologies of Plymouth, Mass., works by taking a magnified photograph of the eyes of the subject in the case of a missing person. That photo would then be compared to photos in a national registry of people who have previously been reported missing to search for a match.
An example Walter gave was that of Elizabeth Smith, a child abducted from her Utah home in 2002 and held hostage for nine months.
When police found her, she lied about her identity and her appearance was disguised.
A system like Child Project would then be used to discover Smith's actual identity.
"We thought this equipment was important because it gives my office a new high tech tool to help protect children and seniors in Scott County," Walter said in a prepared statement.
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Well I truly hope no mom or dad will allow you to scan their kids eyes. Once the government has this info you are in their system for life. No saying the local cops would do anything with it but what will Big brother do with the information?
Well I truly hope no mom or dad will allow you to scan their kids eyes. Once the government has this info you are in their system for life. No saying the local cops would do anything with it but what will Big brother do with the information?
Re;fredom1776-2009
Why are you afraid of the system? Are you hiding from something?
Re;fredom1776-2009
Why are you afraid of the system? Are you hiding from something?
newman90, can you not see how this is just one more step at government to step into our lives and violate our freedom?
perhaps its just me, but i see government enroaching further and further into americans lives, and it's looking more and more like that of the adolf hitler era at control.
pertaining to tracking of inmates and sex offenders, how is that going to help track that population of offenders?
Sounds like another case for the ACLU to tackle. Preserving what little human rights we have as Americans seems very important in this bloggers eyes.
you realize that this is no different than checking someone's fingerprints right? except this way they won't have to send the fingerprints off to a lab to be checked. Once you are arrested your fingerprints go into the national database and will be there forever. So sex offenders are already "tracked". I really hope that you are just feigning outrage and you arent really that dumb
I've got a great idea! Why don't we just implant a homing device chip in every baby at birth? For those of us already born; we could all be implanted by our local sheriffs so they can keep us safe by knowing where we are at all times.
The sheriff and his black shirts can drive around with the little revolving antennas, like they use for tracking animals on the T.V. shows,to make sure we are where we are supposed to be and not getting in to mischief. I love living in the Brave New World. Soon we won't have to make any decisions for ourselves at all. Won't life be grand?
Hey sheriff Walter. Why don't you be the first to have a tracking chip injected into yourself so that we can know where you are at all times? We want to make sure our public officials are safe. After all if you are not doing anything wrong, then why should you care? Right?
It is very obvious that none of you all that are posting negative comments have ever had a child that was lost. If this system helps locate a child even a few hours faster...it is completely worth it!
If you've ever worked at a state job or a job that requires fingerprints, you're already in the system. I have since 2005, so far no strange SUV's following me. I'm pretty sure if they were following me they would get pretty bored after a while.
OK, as someone has already mentioned that this is no "different" than fingerprints, how is it going to be "better"? If this proves no "better" what is next?
I don't believe Rick has any nefarious purposes in mind, but I really don't see the need and I think for many years we have been scaring our children needlessly. If it is to be done, I would really like for it to be as low key as possible perhaps by non uniformed personnel or at the doctors office. My own kids were effected by all of this to the point that they could not sleep when away from home until they were sure I had my weapon with me.
There's always some resistance. A lot of people were (and still are) afraid of having a social security number assigned to them. They already do put chips in people. They claim it to be for medical information, like if you're in a car wreck and unconscious they could scan to see that you're allergic to sulfa drugs and avoid allergic reactions that could potentially kill you in an already weakened state.
The talk about Big Brother.......yes, we've all read 1984, we know how the story goes. When it comes down to it though, you can be traced to an exact place and time of when you post a message. A cell phone that is turned off can still be used as a microphone for monitoring activity, the only way to avoid it is to take the battery out of your cell phone.
I guess we could all ditch our electronics and move out into the woods, grow a big beard and start mailing out packages....wait, that seems familiar.
TripleS. . .i told you how this was "better". . .the time it takes to send fingerprints off to the lab for comparison could be wasted time that law enforcement doesn't have
Trojan19
You can take, store and send fingerprints via computer, so how is this slower than anything else?
Trojan19
You can take, store and send fingerprints via computer, so how is this slower than anything else?
The Sheriff made the comment on the news, It is 100% on positive identification. Well, finger prints are to. To the person who said that it takes time to send finger prints in. It will be the same with this instrument, it is all stored in a data base, just like finger prints, DNA, and the Test firing of firearms. Lets get the REAL TRUTH OUT HERE! We just gave these people more of our money to blow on what ever they want! That is what they (JAMIE,RITA and RICK)will continue to do. $5,000.00 dollars for this, when they have a finger print system that is directly connected to the FBI files. That system can return an identification in some circumstances less than an hour.
WOW, if these three told people that people from out of our county would pay for this tax, some would believe it, Oh wait they did. haha