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Posted on Tue, Nov 3, 2009 : 11:44 a.m.

Rich Rodriguez backs ID kits for children

By AnnArbor.com Staff

Michigan football coach Rich Rodriguez helped kick off a drive to distribute 290,000 child ID kits to every kindergarten and first-grade student in the state this fall.

He announced the initiative Monday at a news conference joined by local and federal law enforcement officials.

Rodriguez says his goal is for every student in Michigan to have the FBI-approved kits.

The kits help parents collect fingerprints and DNA in nonintrusive ways, list physical characteristics and add a picture to help locate missing children.

The National Child Identification Program says 800,000 children - one every 40 seconds - in the country are missing each year.

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chosen1

Tue, Nov 3, 2009 : 3:45 p.m.

finally a feel good article on the coach