More than 65 children were fingerprinted and photographed at the event in Hillsboro, N.H., which was jointly sponsored by the Keene Police Officers’ Association (KPOA) and the Hillsboro-Deering Support Staff. Officers from the Hillsboro Police Department also joined in.

“The information on this document is everything a parent would need to file a report with the police department if the child went missing,” says KPOA president John Stewart, noting that distraught parents commonly can’t remember their child’s eye or hair color when the child disappears.

KPOA purchased the fingerprinting software program with donations solicited from businesses in the community.

It is just one of KPOA’s latest community endeavors—and one that it can share with other AFT locals in New England.

“Having up-to-date information on your child will enable law enforcement agencies to electronically disseminate essential missing child information, statewide if necessary, within minutes, and will dramatically increase the possibility of bringing a missing child home unharmed,” says Kelly D’Errico, president of the Hillsboro-Deering Support Staff.

“As long as it’s a day’s drive,” Stewart says, KPOA will share its fingerprinting program with other AFT locals that want to host their own event.

“It’s a nice way to get everybody to work together,” says Stewart, who wants the union to be synonymous with community service.

KPOA is currently the only law enforcement organization in New Hampshire to utilize the SentryKIDS® FingerTIPS™ digital fingerprinting software.

ABOR purports to open up college classrooms to a diversity of viewpoints—a goal that seems unassailable. Under the surface, however, is a sinister intent, say critics like AFT vice president William Scheuerman, for it would open the door to government intervention in the classroom. “This is a solution in search of a problem” that doesn’t exist, he says.

The fact is, classrooms are already open. Learning how to get at the truth of a subject and having your ideas challenged is what college is all about. Horowitz wants to force academics to give equal weight to all viewpoints, even when they’re discredited—for example, teaching about intelligent design in a biology class.

Citing polls showing that faculty tend to vote Democrat, Horowitz claims those politics are permeating the classroom. His “bill of rights” would address hiring decisions. Ironically enough, Horowitz thinks legislation that invites government control in college classrooms is what students need to protect them from politics.

ABOR has been rejected or tabled in almost every state where it’s been introduced.  Students find the bill insulting and have testified that complaint mechanisms in place are enough to protect their free speech. A Penn State study documents that in the past five years, among tens of thousands of students taking hundreds of thousands of classes, students have registered only 13 bias complaints and the majority of them have been unfounded.

The AFT is the founding member of a coalition called Free Exchange on Campus to fight the ABOR campaign, which has just begun to turn its sights on K-12 education. In April, announcing the launch of a K-12 campaign, Horowitz said: “The left, working through the ed schools and the teacher unions, has launched a nationwide indoctrination and recruitment movement in our schools.” Find that disconcerting? Learn more at www.freeexchangeoncampus.org.