Officials in Contra Costa County, California are using RFID (radio frequency identification) technology to track some 240 preschoolers as part of a new Head Start program to keep the children safe and to make better use of its teachers.
But the plan is not going over well with some privacy groups.
The county received a $115,000 stimulus grant for the system under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, according to Karen Mitchoff, Contra Costa County Employment & Human Services spokeswoman, which oversees the Head Start program. Mitchoff said the county has spent $50,000 of that money rolling out the system to the first Head Start site. She said the county plans to use the rest of the grant to implement the technology in two other Head Start facilities.



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