For the past 16 years, Operation KidSafe has been helping educate and safeguard Bay Area kids. With a program based on education, awareness, and preparation, Operation KidSafe provides kids and their parents with free biodocs that include fingerprints and information that can be provided to law enforcement during an emergency.
“Here’s the overview: The parents are going to come in and get what’s called a free, lifetime AMBER Alert biodoc,” said Mark J. Bott on KNBR Tonight. “It’s free for them and private, so they’ll not even be asked for their kids names. I believe, and again I’ve been doing this for a lot of years — I worked four years with John Walsh with America’s Most Wanted — and I found out pretty quickly the bad guys had all the information, parents didn’t have much, and the parents were giving away their information way too easily to people that don’t need it.
“So we don’t take info, it’s free, it’s private, and they’re going to walk out with a biodoc that’s going to have their child’s 10 digitized fingerprints that’s good for a lifetime, and our safety tips so we hope they don’t ever have to use this form.”
Operation Kidsafe will be at Audi of Fremont this weekend, from 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. on Saturday the 20th, and from 11 a.m. – 5 p.m. on Sunday the 21st.
“We’re about education and prevention,” Bott said. “In other words, we want to prepare the parents as best we can to give the kids some real world tips that they can use.
“What I always say is 99 percent of people you could literally, in this world, you could leave your kids with and they’d probably be safer than with you (laughs). But that little bit less than one percent, if you run headlong into that bad person, your kids have to have some basic skills, ’cause they’re not always an arms length away from you.
“Here’s the great thing: Audi Fremont gets it. They’re giving back to a community that’s made them successful. This is not tied to a sale, you don’t have to do a backflip, you don’t have to take a test drive, none of that. They are giving up their showroom for us because they are so awesome to just let us have their space and help us get the word out.”
For more information on Operation Kidsafe, visit their website at http://www.operationkidsafe.org/
