Posted: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 12:00 am
At this year's Strawberry Festival, parents will be offered a free ID tag that could help find missing children. The Erin L. Moseley Farmers Insurance Agency will be hosting a digital ID event on Saturday, June 2, at the festival site at Cheadle Lake. The service is provided at no cost.
The insurance firm is partnering with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children in a national effort to provide parents with personal digital safety IDs of their children in the event that their child becomes lost or missing. Parents can get a free, standardized, high-quality digital image of their children and sign up for a free copy of the Home Organizer software program to store that photo. The Home Organizer, developed by Imagery Concepts, is a virtual filing cabinet for family records and documents.
The device, called MILK (Managing Information on Lost Kids), gives parents a convenient location for storing a photo and identification information on their children. The program was designed to raise awareness of child safety and provide parents with an effective tool to aid law enforcement authorities in the search for a missing child.
The MILK ID is the first step in the Amber Alert. One in seven missing children is found because of a photograph distributed by The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Access to a standardized, current photograph is the single most important tool in finding missing children.