California children fingerprinted to ride the schoolbus [priv]

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

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Subject: Fingerprinting schoolchildren?
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 21:49:50 -0600
From: Matthew Hunter <matthew () infodancer org>
To: Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>

This one's a little more along PoliTech's usual lines.  In a
California district, schoolchildren are poised to be
fingerprinted whenever they get on or off the schoolbus.

Apparantly this is supposed to help the school keep track of the
kids, or more cynically, supposed to help the school say to the
worried parents "Hey, your kid got off the bus at his stop just
like he was supposed to!  It's not OUR problem he didn't come
home!"

The way I see it, though, the school that's doing this will be
teaching kids a lesson: that they have no rights and that
everyone is routinely treated as a criminal.

My take on it:
http://www.triggerfinger.org/weblog/entry/4975.jsp

And the original article at:
http://www.sptimes.com/2004/02/28/Tampabay/Have_your_thumb_ready.shtml

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