Texas schools send parents DNA kits to identify their kids’ bodies in emergencies

A man is comforted by a Texas Department of Public Safety officer at a memorial outside Robb Elementary School created to honor the victims killed in last week’s school shooting, Friday, June 3, 2022, in Uvalde, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

After the mass shooting in Uvalde, the kits are making many parents feel even more anxious about sending their children to school.

by: Danielle Campomoar, TODAY

Posted: Oct 19, 2022 / 06:53 AM EDT

Updated: Oct 19, 2022 / 06:54 AM EDT

(NBC News) — The state of Texas is sending public school students home with DNA kits designed to help their parents identify their children “in case of an emergency.”

In 2021, the Texas state legislature passed Senate Bill No. 2158, a law requiring the Texas Education Agency to “provide identification kits to school districts and open-enrollment charter schools for distribution to the parent or legal custodian of certain students.”

The law passed after eight students and two teachers were shot and killed inside Santa Fe High School in Santa Fe, Texas, and almost a year before 19 fourth-graders and two teachers were gunned down inside Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas.

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