The taking of pictures and fingerprints of children is a project that has moved from the old technology of ink pads, fingerprint cards and Polaroid pictures to state of the art laptop computers and mini-sized fingerprint scanners. With the help of the Amber Foundationin in 2005, the Club began to expanded the scope of this safety project. Our annual goal is to provide the parents of every second grader in the Oceanside Unified School District with the fingerprints and a digital picture of their child. In Jan of 2010, we had completed the process with over 10,000 children.

Child ID has become one of OPK’s most requested projects in our community. The program quickly evolved into several annual events, such as, Camp Pendleton’s Kids First Safety Fair, Oceanside’s National Night Out as well as, popular public events at Wal-Mart, Lowes, Home Depot and various other local venues. We generally ID any child at any age at all of our public events, because at the end of the day, “It’s all about the Kids.”

On January 21st 2010 while hosting an event at Stuart Mesa Elementary School, We (OPK) achieved an incredible milestone by finger printing our 10,000th child. We were able to reach this goal with the help of two new laptops and hopefully, with continued donations, we will able to replace and update our finger print scanners. Within four to five years we may reach an unbelievable goal of finger printing 25,000 children.