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2000 Pumpkin Festival, Half Moon Bay.  This event featured the digital finger printing which allowed the parents to walk home with a copy of their child's finger prints and picture.  To the right is Kim Swartz, Amber Jean Swartz's mother. (2000)
 
The event is hosted and supported by many.  To the right is Judy Smith, Aunt, Tara Cossey. (2000)
 
Here is the stand at the pumpkin festival.  Inside there are many inkless digital finger print scanners ready to go. (2000)
 
The 2000 pumpkin festival turned out thousands of people and allowed us to expose our services to many hundreds of them.  The overall turnout during the two day period was more than 1000 children scanned and printed for their parents.  One of the biggest questions for most is "What happens to the information that we collect_"  As part of the service we scan the fingerprints and take a picture of the child and print it on a standardized form.  The information is then cleared from the computer.  The foundation, nor any other organization, keeps a copy of this information.  The card that is printed has all of the information that would be asked for by the local law enforcement agencies in time of need.  The photo to the left was taken during the 2001 pumpkin festival. (2001).

Some may ask why this is important.  In the event that something is to happen to you, or someone else's child local law enforcement agencies will ask for many pieces of information including the child's weight, height and for a photo of your child.  The information that we provide covers most of this. 

 
 

To scan the fingerprints into the computer for printing we use inkless digital fingerprint scanners.  It works in much of the same was as a digital camera and its quality is rating better than inked fingerprints in many cases. (2001). 

 

Events such as the 2001 pumpkin festival allow us to service many people.  During the two day weekend which we were open from early morning until after the closing of the festival we serviced over 1600 people.  Stations such as this one were manned by volunteers.  (2001)

 

At almost every moment there were people in line awaiting to have photo's and fingerprints taken of their children.  Even after the close of the festival we continued to service those in need.  To the right is Gary Smith, Cousin of Tara Cossey.  (2001)