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PUBLIC TESTIMONY
Testimony by Carolyn Lewis, Vice President of Tribal and Law Enforcement Affairs at National Child ID Program
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Carolyn Lewis, representing the National Child ID Program, testifies about the critical issue of missing children and requests funding to distribute child ID kits in New York City. She explains the purpose and contents of these kits, which are designed to help families in case their children go missing.
- The National Child ID Program, started in 1997, provides kits that families can use to store their children's information privately.
- Lewis requests a $1 million grant, which the organization would match, to produce and distribute 650,000 kits in New York City.
- The kits include fingerprinting materials and information cards, aiming to help in cases of missing children.
Carolyn Lewis
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Can you hear me?
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Okay.
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I can hear you.
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Thank you.
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Good afternoon.
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My name is Carolyn Lewis.
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I am the vice president of tribal and law enforcement affairs for the national or national child ID program.
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I'm coming to you because we have a critical and a serious case going on throughout the country.
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I'm sorry.
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Thank you.
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The, you know, we have over a thousand kids that go missing every day, every single day.
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And we don't have, you know, it is not being talked about.
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It's not being addressed.
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So if I may, I I provided a child ID kit.
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The national child ID program started in 1997 when Amber Hageman went missing.
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That's where the Amber Alert came from.
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And with with the help of our NFL partners, Hall of Fame, they started this program down in Texas giving out over 25,000 kits.
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These kits do not go in a database.
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They do not be they are not given to any authorities.
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These are solely for family members to hold onto these kits in the event that their loved ones go missing.
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And if I may just take a minute just to read a couple of things.
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So basically, this kit is a comprehensive for comprehensive information.
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It allows you to do your own fingerprints, has decentralized fingerprint in there.
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It has a three card stock that you could fill out for yourself, your families, and, you know, you can look at it on your own.
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What we're asking is that we're asking for your help to seek to raise a million dollars for manufacturing grant which would allow us with this me, would allow us to manufacture more kits to be distributed here in New York.
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Now if you let's say for argument's sake you give us a million dollars, the national child ID will match dollar for dollar, which would be $2,000,000, which would be 650,000 kits that could be distributed throughout the city, preferably to our students.
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We are focusing on bringing this nationwide.
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It's actually global.
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I personally have given out over 450,000 kids nation nationally and we look forward to continuing this.
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I have given a letter which my my personal information as well as the executive director's information is on there and hopefully we can get a million dollars so that we can take care of our kids because basically, their safety is our their future is our safety and their safety is our duty.
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So thank you for the time.