Students in Cabell County middle and high schools will soon be paying for their meals using fingerprint scanning technology, according to The Herald-Dispatch. Cabell County joins other counties in West Virginia already using the technology in an effort to improve the speed and accuracy of school breakfast and lunch lines. The county sent out letters […]

The Tupelo School District in Mississippi has plans to introduce biometric finger scanners to identify students, according to the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal. School officials say the use of biometric scanners will be used to speed up school cafeteria lunch lines, during breakfast and lunch. School officials said the system would neither take nor store […]

The Pinellas County School District, seated in Clearwater, Fla., has deployed biometric technology to provide a more reliable and secure method for handling school food service program transactions. The fully integrated solution combines Fujitsu PalmSecure biometric technology with MCS Software’s point-of-sale system to provide enhanced security without student PINs or fingerprints scanners. Unlike other readers, […]

Angus County in Scotland, UK, where the county council education chief Peter Nield has come out in support of fingerprint biometrics to be used as a form of identity management in schools, is finding growing concern over use of such technology, according to an article from The Courier. In addition to parental worries over leaked […]

Northwest Allen County Schools of Fort Wayne, Ind. are installing fingerprint scanners that students will use to pay for the lunches, according to a local news station. School district leaders say the new technology will reduce the risk of student’s losing or having their ID card stolen. The system will also reduce clerical errors and […]

The Avon Lake school district is employing the use of biometric scanners for students to purchase cafeteria meals in lieu of cash, according to a local news source. To pacify concerned parents and big brother advocates, school officials point out that the system doesn’t actually capture or store a student’s fingerprint but a finger image […]

Scalby School officials are receiving a lot of heat from their decision to implement biometric equipment, according to a local news report. The school, located in Scarborough, UK, recently introduced a cashless payment system and library checkout program that functions by reading students’ fingerprints. School officials assure parents that the fingerprint system is not nearly […]

The Summit School District in New Jersey is utilizing a combination of various technology to streamline accounting and speed up lunch lines, according to an Independent Press release. Elementary schools are utilizing biometric scanners, which read students’ fingertip to pay for meals. However, officials say at no time is a fingerprint image made or stored. […]

Turton School in Bromley Cross, UK are trying out a new cashless payment system in its dinner hall that allow students to pay for their meals by simply pressing their finger to a biometric pad, according to a Bolton news report. The system hopes to removes problems associated with students who lose or have their […]

Somewhere in the neighborhood of 100 schools throughout the UK are using fingerprint identification systems for various school related services including class registration, checking out library books and cashless payment for meals, according to a BBC News report. This has critics in an uproar. Parents are outraged that the schools are taking their children’s fingerprint […]