I got a very nice letter from our agency on Friday. Enclosed was a new fingerprinting card.

Oh oh.

I was really nervous opening up the letter – what happened to Hubby’s prints? Did he have to go again to get fingerprinted?

After the saga of waiting almost three months, taking time off work, getting a speeding ticket, well- you read it all on the blog - I didn’t think I’d have much luck interjecting a new plea into our normal course of conversation:

“Oh bye the way honey, your fingerprints got rejected, please just run back down to the police station and try not to speed ok dear?”

The six page legalize letter from our agency explains in very careful detail how the fingerprinting laws changed October 1.

I knew that. So?

My fingerprints were completed on September 26, and missed the deadline in the mailing process and got rejected by just a few days.

No child by Christmas now that's for sure!

I have to go back down to the police station and either:

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  1. Wake up K two hours earlier than usual, (6:00 am), and miss my usual morning routine of reading and writing, put her in the car and get to the police station before they open,

Or

• 2. Wait in line for ninety minutes again with tattoo dad and sex offender grandpa for fingerprinting.

I’ll let you know what I choose later this week.

The new regulation is the Adam Walsh Legislation.

I love America’s Most Wanted – Adam Walsh’s Dad and everything he stands for. I don’t watch it much, but I know because of his own experience of loosing his son, he advocates for the children in a hard hitting vigilante sort of way.

This new legislation will be a good thing. One small part of it required that fingerprinting be sent through a national FBI check, rather than a state check. All foster and adoptive parents will be checked.

Hubby’s went to FBI. Mine went to Colorado.

I just got caught in the middle.


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Creating A New National Child Abuse Registry And Requiring Investigators To Do Background Checks Of Adoptive And Foster Parents Before They Are Approved To Take Custody Of A Child. By giving child protective service professionals in all 50 States access to this critical information, we will improve their ability to investigate child abuse cases and help ensure that vulnerable children are not put into situations of abuse or neglect.