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Microchips used to track students at school system in Georgia - RFID
RFID microchips will be used to track students on school busses in Chattooga County.
The chips will be in student ID cards, and parents will be able to decide whether their children participate.
Advocates say it will help boost safety, and the school system says it will only use the tracking system on busses.
Parents can receive a text message when the bus is scheduled to arrive, when their child has been picked up or dropped off, or even if their child failed to get on or off the bus.
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Hamilton County Jail using chips to track inmates
The Hamilton County Jail is now using a digital system to track inmates called Guardian RFID.
Instead of using pen and paper, officers will now conduct inmate checks using a handheld device to scan a chip mounted near cell doors.
The sheriff says that by the end of the year inmates will wear wristbands to be scanned in and out of various parts of the jail.
The system cost about $80,000 dollars, plus annual maintenance fees.
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