Texas Lawmakers Are Again Pushing to Spend Millions on Kits to Find Missing Kids. Experts Say They Don’t Work. Texas legislators slipped millions for child ID kits into a 1,000-page budget proposal.

Politics Texas Lawmakers Pull Funding for Child Identification Kits Again After Newsrooms Report They Don’t Work For the second legislative session, lawmakers have withdrawn funding for a ...

Texas lawmakers want to spend millions on Child ID kits. Experts say there’s no evidence they work. Story by Lexi Churchill, The Texas Tribune • 33m ...

The kits are coming from the National Child Identification Program after state legislature passed SB-2158 in summer 2021, after the Santa Fe school shooting, but before Uvalde.

Texas state legislators dropped efforts to spend millions of dollars to buy what experts call ineffective child identification kits weeks after ProPublica and The Texas Tribune reported that ...

Texas lawmakers want to spend millions on Child ID kits. Experts say there’s no evidence they work. by: Lexi Churchill, The Texas Tribune, ProPublica Posted: May 9, 2025 / 09:58 AM CDT ...

Texas state legislators dropped efforts to spend millions of dollars to buy what experts call ineffective child identification kits weeks after ProPublica and The Texas Tribune reported that ...