1. A. The Department of Public Safety shall develop an identification program, including the taking and retention of fingerprints, for children of this state to be known as the Oklahoma KIDs ID Program. The Program may be developed in conjunction with any organization providing assistive services on a voluntary basis. Such assistive services may include the donation of money to aid in defraying the costs of creating and issuing the identification cards. Any such donated money shall be considered a gift to the Department and shall be deposited to the credit of the Department of Public Safety Revolving Fund to be used solely for the administration and maintenance of the Oklahoma KIDs ID Program.

2. B. The Program shall be developed for the sole purpose of providing a means by which a lost, missing, kidnapped, or killed child might be located or identified and shall be administered under the following guidelines:

   1. 1. No child shall be required to participate in the Program;
   2. 2. The Department shall have the sole authority and responsibility for the collection, retention, and dissemination of computerized fingerprints, computerized photographs, and other information collected for the Program;
   3. 3. In order for a child to participate in the Program, the custodial parent or guardian of the child shall authorize the child's participation by signing a form that shall be developed for the Program by the Department. No child shall be fingerprinted unless a signed authorization form is in the possession of the Department;
   4. 4. The fingerprinting of minors shall be performed by employees of the Department or its agents;
   5. 5. The Department shall retain all fingerprints collected. The fingerprints retained by the Department shall be destroyed by the Department when the minor reaches sixteen (16) years of age, or at the request of the parent;
   6. 6. The name, sex, hair and eye color, height, weight, date of birth, and a computerized photograph of the child shall be displayed on the identification card;
   7. 7. The identification card shall be used for identification purposes only and may not be used in any juvenile or criminal investigation or proceeding conducted against the minor. An identification card prepared pursuant to the Oklahoma KIDs ID Program may be used by a law enforcement agency only to help identify a minor who is lost, missing, kidnapped, or killed; and
   8. 8. Any identification card of a minor prepared pursuant to the Oklahoma KIDs ID Program that has not been updated within four (4) years of issuance or upon the minor reaching sixteen (16) years of age shall be placed in an inactive file for one (1) year and thereafter destroyed.
3. C. The Commissioner of Public Safety shall promulgate rules as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this act.

Laws 2001, HB 1308, c. 361, § 11, eff. July 1, 2004.