The Ident–A–Youth program is administered free–of–charge to provide Suffolk County parents with a record of their children’s fingerprints to file away for safekeeping.
When a child goes missing, it can be one of the most harrowing and traumatic times that a parent can experience. Having a fingerprint record, along with recent photographs and other pertinent information, to give authorities can greatly assist their efforts to locate and identify a missing child.
The process through which a fingerprint is taken is a simple one; a participant lightly touches the inkpad with their finger and then presses it into the designated boxes on the Sheriff’s Ident–A–Youth pamphlet, which is then given to their parent or guardian to take home. There is no other record or copy of the child’s prints left behind, and the ink used to make the print is easily removed from the fingers with the assistance of a paper towel or napkin.
For more information, visit: www.scsdma.org.