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Middle Country updates parents on finger‑scan cafeteria payments; district says templates, not fingerprints, are stored under FERPA protections
Summary
Food‑service staff described an Identimetrics pilot in elementary schools that stores encrypted templates (not fingerprint images) linked to lunch accounts, is protected under FERPA, and has under 3% opt‑out in the pilot schools; staff said the system speeds lunch lines and reduces misidentification errors.
Middle Country Central School District food‑service staff gave a status report on a finger‑scan system for elementary school cafeteria purchases, saying the platform stores an encrypted numeric template linked to a student’s lunch account and does not retain a fingerprint image.
Sharon Dyke, who presented the update, said the vendor converts scanned finger points to an encrypted binary number that is associated with the student’s lunch account; the vendor and district store that template, not an image of a fingerprint. “It is not possible in…
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