The renewed option of Child ID kits at schools — by their timing, linked closely to last May’s Uvalde mass shooting — is nothing new to Texas, which has offered similar kits to parents for at least two decades.
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“These are the same green Converse on her feet that turned out to be the only clear evidence that could identify her after the shooting,” McConaughey said during a news conference on Capitol Hill, pointing to the shoes held by his wife.Parents are alarmed and upset by Child ID kits now being offered on Texas school campuses
“Every year, greater than 800,000 children go missing,” Campbell told her colleagues as she laid out Senate Bill 2158 on April 15. “That’s roughly one child every 40 seconds…This bill seeks to help locate the missing children.”
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