10/05/2018
Legitimate companies, such as American Income Life Insurance distribute NO COST 'child safe' or 'child ID kits'. The ones distributed by American Income Life are the McGruff Child ID Kits from the National Crime Prevention Council and the Child Safe Kits endorsed by the International Union of Police Association, American Federation of School Administrators, American Federation of Teachers (see photos of these in the comments below). These are issued from those entities to legitimate trusted companies (not printable online) and have a fingerprinting ink strip included. American Income Life Insurance agents DO NOT take the kits with them (and therefore do not collect any information on the child), the kits are for the parents to keep. This article is talking about someone claiming to be from the State Attorney General's office in Hawaii coming to people's homes unexpectedly. No employees from that department delivers such kits in person to people's homes, so in that case, anyone claiming to be with the State Attorney General department in Hawaii would be a scam. Legitimate companies distributing these kits will make an appointment with you and then are able to show you credentials when they get there. American Income Life Insurance agents carry their license with them, issued by their state's Insurance Commissioner. An insurance agent's license can be verified online by any person, on any state's Insurance Commissioner's website. Our agents also carry a uniform business card, showing their license number on it and having the Allied Union Trades Council's label on the back of the card (see photo in comments below), and are printed at a unionized printing company legally authorized to use that label. Furthermore, the Keiki ID kits from the State Attorney's office on Hawaii can be printed out from online, so anyone could just print them out and make false claims.
Attorney General Russell Suzuki is warning the public after receiving a report of an individual who claimed to be an employee of the Department going door-to-door in Honolulu asking residents if they were interested in scheduling an appointment for a Keiki ID kit.