Use of biometrics in schools concerns parents

January 10, 2008 - 8:51am

“I certainly wouldn’t want my children to be fingerprinted or have an
iris scan or anything like that,” said Sen. Karen Johnson, R-Mesa,
“We’ve lived many years without doing this. Now this seems to be the
thing everyone is doing, thinking they’re making themselves safe or for
efficiency, and, by golly, it’s not right. And it’s a huge moneymaker
for these companies that are producing the equipment and the scanners
for all this.”