Sheboygan, WI (WHBL) – Green Bay Packers Hall of Famer Jerry Kramer, (64) will visit Sheboygan Tuesday to help the city kick off the Child ID Kit program. Chase Longmiller with Sheboygan Fire Fighters 483 says Kramer will attend a fundraiser at Fire House no. 1.
This is part of a rapidly growing movement to provide the kits to families all over Wisconsin.
Sheboygan Fire Chief Mike Romas says it’s a no - brainer, teaming up with the Green Bay Packers’ “Fill the Helmet” campaign. The campaign will provide child ID kits for all K-12 children throughout the state.
The Child ID kit will include; an inkless fingerprint card, a DNA collection swab, and a cut-out wallet card. “Then those records can be kept by the parents in case - God forbid, anything happens to their child; they become lost or anything else, they can be identified.
Sheboygan is now joining with some 4,000 other members of the Professional Firefighter’s Union of Wisconsin, which serves more than sixty local affiliates in nearly one hundred communities statewide.
The chief says he was alerted last week by the local Firefighter’s union about efforts underway in other cities to expand the program.
Sheboygan Mayor Mike Vandersteen says more events are planned in the coming weeks to launch the campaign in the city. He says, “Technology has changed. Years ago we thought that just fingerprints of our kids was the best way to identify them, now DNA has taken over and these new kits will provide the best information to find kids that are lost. “
Recently, firefighters in Fond du Lac announced that they too are joining this major undertaking