Dear Parents,
Carthage Junior High has implemented a state of the art identification system to protect your son or daughter from identity fraud.    Our new system for purchasing food will use a finger pad at the cashier’s station to identify students and to gain access to deposited funds available for meal services.  This will mean that student accounts are updated immediately and accurately.

This system offers complete privacy and does not in any way store a copy of the students’ fingerprints.  Upon registration, the index finger is scanned.  A mathematical algorithm then translates the defining points of the fingerprint in an indefinable string of characters.  This indefinable string is what is stored in the program and is what will be called upon to identify a student. 
This new form of identification uses the finger and its image to uniquely identify each person.   The system measures many aspects of the finger to do this.   The system does not create or store a fingerprint image.   This form of identification is called Biometrics, which translated means measurements of human characteristics.  This is not fingerprinting. 

The system is one directional.  The finger is enrolled and our system takes a variable amount of measurements based on the style of the finger and places these in storage by creating a numeric that represents these measurements.  There is no way to reverse the process and be able to create a fingerprint from this information.  Without the finger being placed on the reader, we have no knowledge of style of finger or how many measurements went into the matching process to create this unique numeric.

Once this system is implemented your son or daughter is in complete control of their own identity.   They only can be identified by placing their finger on the reader.   This dramatically protects them from losing an id number or sharing that number with other students.   If you have additional questions about the system, please contact Becky Baird at 417-359-7000

Sincerely,

 

Ron Wallace