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QUINCY, ILL. -- This KHQA Safe Family Report centers around making sure your child could be identified if he or she went missing. A workshop will be held at the Adams County Fair next week to put together child identification kits. This is video from a workshop after Alisa Maier was found. She's the 4-year-old Louisiana girl who was abducted earlier this month. Between noon and 6:30 pm Tuesday, children can get their picture taken, get a D-N-A swab and have their fingerprints taken All of this will be combined into a kit for the child's legal guardian.
"It's an opportunity to help law enforcement to get that first step and to get out there and provide all the information they need at that time to be able to locate that child as quick as possible, said Illinois State Trooper Mike Kindhart.
Kindhart also says it's important to get this done close to once a year. Your child's fingerprints will never change, but appearance and mannerisms might.
Click here to view a copy of the waiver. You can print it out at home, fill it out, and bring it with you. There will also be copies available there.
