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Sheriff-elect John Henry Woodward and assistant school superintendent Tom Campbell are planning a fingerprinting program for Rappahannock’s children.
Fingerprinting has become common in suburban districts as a precaution to help police in case children are kidnapped. The fingerprints are kept on file by the parents, police or school officials and only used if the child should disappear. The purpose is purely precautionary and done only with parental permission.
But Campbell says kidnapping is not just a city crisis; it can happen in the country, too. In seeking permission to proceed with the program, Campbell told the School Board at its December 13 meeting, the danger can be even greater. “In a rural setting where children are waiting for buses” he said as an example, children are more susceptible to kidnapping.
Campbell said he and Woodward had made preliminary plans to at least fingerprint pupils at the
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