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# Child IDs offered by local lodges
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/child-ids-offered-by-local-lodges/
- Published: 2007-02-24T16:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-24T00:08:49.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Sports, Santa Monica, #archive-import

*By DAILY PRESS STAFF*

Freemasons and Elks from the Santa Monica area who together make up the majority of sponsorship for the local little league invite parents to swing by their child-ID booth at Memorial Park today as part of the Santa Monica Little League opening ceremonies.

“You have a gathering of parents and most of the parents will have multiple children,” said John Barry, a member of the Sunset Masonic Lodge who is also a little league parent and team manager. “It’s very quick. All we have to do is snap their picture and take their finger prints.”

Representatives from both lodges will print out the cards which parents can add additional personal information to.

The ID cards help the police in the event a child joins the 725,000 other children in the United States who turn up missing in a given year, Barry said.

“Hopefully, no one will ever have to use it,” Barry said. “But it’s not bad to have a little piece of insurance behind you.”

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on February 24, 2007.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/022407.pdf?ref=smdp.com)