Pekin ends DARE program
Pekin Police Department officials and Pekin District 108 officials are daring to try a new approach to fill fulfill the mission of the 23-year-old DARE program that officials say is ineffective. Pekin Police Chief Ted Miller, a DARE officer himself at one time, said the program will cease to exist at the beginning of the 2010-11 school year. Pekin DARE program began in 1987. The police …
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Fed fingerprint initiative criticized
Denver — The federal government is rapidly expanding a program to identify illegal immigrants using fingerprints from arrests, drawing opposition from local authorities and advocates who argue the initiative amounts to an excessive dragnet.
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