ACCOUNTING FOR CHILDREN IN CONFLICT WITH THE LAW,
CHILDREN’S CASES AND STREET CHILDREN IN THE JUSTICE
SYSTEM.
THE FINDINGS
Street children in Kenya face innumerable hardships and danger
in their daily lives. In addition to the hazards of living on the
street, these children face harassment and abuse from the police
and within the juvenile justice system for no reason other than
the fact that they are street children. Living outside the
protection of responsible adults, street children are easy and
silent targets for abuse by police and society at large.
On the streets, they are subject to frequent beatings by police as
well as monetary extortion and sexual abuse. They are subject to
frequent arrest simply because they are homeless;
"vagrancy" (being without a fixed abode) is a criminal offense
under Kenyan law.
Once arrested, often by plainclothes police in roundup
operations, street children are processed through the revolving
doors of the Kenyan juvenile justice system, where children
pass back and forth between remand detention centers and court
before a final disposition is reached in their cases.
After spending indefinite periods of time on remand, where they
are further neglected and abused, they may be finally sentenced
to institutions called approved schools, borstal institutions or
adult prisons, which do little to improve their lives.
CURRENT SITUATION
Data gathered from human rights watch and the smile foundation
There are several differing statistics about the
number of street children in Nairobi Kenya. A study
commissioned by the consortium of street children
(CSC) brings some shocking statistics:
In 1999 it was reported that there were over 50,000 street
children in Nairobi and the government estimated that
their numbers grew at 10% per year.
It was estimated in 2007 that there were 250,000 –
300,000 children living and working in the streets across
Kenya, with more than 60,000 of them in Nairobi.
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Street children are frequently arrested by police and brought before courts where they
are charged with criminal offenses or classified as being "in need of "protection or
discipline." Without representation by legal counsel, and without the presence of a
parent or legal guardian, these children are subjected to brief hearings on their cases
whereby they may be deprived of their liberty and committed for years to juvenile
correctional institutions know as approved schools or borstal institutions.
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Police have huge discretion in deciding what court you go to. They write the charge
sheet and they take you to court. If they think you're older or if the offense is a more
serious one, they'll take you to regular court. It's all based on looks. Kids can't
explain themselves to the police. There's no time, and they're scared.
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Police decide your age, basically on your looks, and they can make mistakes. There are
other problems too-like in rural areas pastoralist children are born at home and have no
official registration and may not know their exact age. The police don't care. It especially
effects street children who don't have concerned parties to complain on their behalf and
point out that they're only children.
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OUR TECHNOLOGY
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Identity of child
Charge sheet
Age, gender
Present to judge
Judgement
Current location of
the child
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Judiciary
borstal
Enrollment
Class attendance
Class performance
Probation appointments
Release/Transfer
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Police
Streets
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Children’s
homes
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Integrated Child
Identification
Management System
Arrest record
Identity of child
Alert custodian
Age./ gender
Booking
Update record
Charge sheet
Present to court
Enrollment
Tracking from town to town
Medical
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Number of registered children’s homes
Number of children in each home by age/gender
Number of staff by age, gender, qualification
Quality assurance index of the homes
Report abuse cases from each home
Number of children adopted, by gender/age
Identification and location of adopting parents
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OUR PROPOSAL
Biometric head count of all street children/families
living on the streets/children’s homes by age,
gender, level of education, reasons for being on
the streets, physical and health conditions.
Increase surveillance, security and rehabilitate street kids
and those in conflict with the law.
Judiciary can know the exact number of street
children, children in homes, condition of the
homes, those in police custody, in borstals,to
better account for them and provide services.
The kids can easily be tracked within the
programs they have been enrolled in.
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IN THE JUSTICE SYSTEM
Process
Flow FLOW SCHOOL
PROCESS
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Child iris or face
scanned.
Custodian of child receives text
message of where the child is being
held.
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Data Synchronized with child
enrollment server and child
verified. Child is booked and
charge sheet is drawn up.
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Child presented before
judge and judgement is
made for release,
borstal or probation.
Help
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Child arrested and taken
to police station.
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Child enrolled in
borstal and Class
attendance
tracked.
Probation
appointment can
also be tracked.
Enrollment of all children in
homes/streets by age, gender,
as well as registration of the
homes with GIS mapping,
staff, qualifications, and
quality index of the homes.
Reports &
Analysis
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FOR MEDICAL SERVCIES
ProcessFLOW
Flow SCHOOL
PROCESS
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Data Synchronized with child
file under NHIF
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At the hospital,
child iris/face is
scanned for
identification.
Child is positively
identified and treatment
administered and health
record updated.
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Help
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Enrollment of all street
children using phone camera
and iris camera into medical
scheme.
Custodian of child receives text
message of which hospital the child is.
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Reports
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FOR IMMIGRATION SERVICES
Process flow immigration
PROCESS
FLOW
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Person receives ID or
Passport
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If verification is confirmed, ID is
prepared by immigration officer.
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Person applies for ID card at
Huduma Center and has his/her
eye/face scanned and submitted
to server for
authentication/verification.
Custodian receives SMS
from system alerting that
their child has been rescued
at the airport.
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Before departure, all
children under 18yrs of age
have to have their eye
scanned to ensure they
have not been reported lost
or abducted. No child will be
allowed to exit the country if
they have been flagged.
Secure Child Services
Server which holds all the
data of enrolled street
children. Reports can easily
be generated
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With positive identification,
street children can now have;
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Access to education
Access to medical services (NHIF)
Access to justice
Access to ID documents when they turn 18
Right to vote
Ability to gain employment
Ability to purchase SIM card
Ability to travel
Avoid being trafficked or radicalized
Right to life
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FOR PARENTS
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Under more info
please put the
details surrounding
her disappearance
and click on the
send button.
More info
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Confirm your child’s
info is current
including the photo
and your contact
details then click on
the report missing
button
Contact #:
Contact Name:
Height:
Weight:
Please call 0727511842
Hair Color:
to give more details.
Last seen location:
Last seen date
Last seen time:
Additional Information
DASHBOARD VIEW OF ALL EVENTS
TOOLS NEEDED TO RUN EYE-D ©
Tools Needed
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Android Phone Iris Camera
Eye-D/face track software
server
Network (data bundles)/Wifi
Biometric file
Secure Server
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DATA LOCK LTD: ALWAYS INNOVATING
Privacy Concerns & Data Security
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No actual Iris images are stored!
Data hosted and owned by government agency
Digital templates cannot be used to re-create identifiable images
The data remains the property of government
Military grade encryption is used on the server side.
Point to point Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) encryption.
Onboard data uses AES encryption, as well as certificates for browser connections.
 Data Lock adheres to the European Union’s Safe Harbour guidelines
DataHouse
Vault Systems
Enterprises
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Data Lock Ltd 2nd flr, AAYMCA Building, State
Crescent,
Off State
Avenue, www.datalock.co.ke,info@datalock.co.ke
Eye-D© provides
the ability to track
the following:
The
Solution
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Number of street kids by county
2. Number of registered children’s homes
3. Number of children enrolled in each home by age and gender
4. Number of staff by age/gender qualification
5. Quality assurance index of each home
6. Number of reported child abuse cases by type from each home
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Number of children arrested
8. Number of children presented to court by week/month/year according to age/gender
9. Number of children in borstal by age/gender
10. Number of children attending class and their performance records
11. Number of children on probation and their appointment records
12. Which adoption agency has custody of which children
13. The current location of an adopted child (locally/abroad)
14. Report generation & analysis
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OUR PREVIOUS PROJECTS
Jacaranda Health Anti-Infant Abduction APP
Click this link to view
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOIn06Dyy3I
Ministry of Education
We have developed an iris based Biometric Student Information Management
System for the Ministry of Education to track student enrollment and class
attendance.
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Students in Mombasa and Laikipia counties
going through rollcall process. Each event is
captured in the server and the student is
marked as present, late or absent. Parents
are sent SMS if the student is late or absent
from school.
NIS can easily tap into this server when
conducting background checks on persons of
interest. Equally DoD and other law enforcement
agencies can do the same during recruitment
exercises to mitigate infiltration by terror groups.
Students in Mombasa and Meru county going
through enrollment process. Rollcall is done on
the list option that does not require
biometrics. Each event is captured in the
server and the student is marked as present,
late or absent. Parents are sent SMS if the
student is late or absent from school.
THANK YOU
Data Lock Ltd
2nd flr, AAYMCA Building, State House Crescent, Off
State House Avenue
Nairobi.
0721511404
info@datalock.co.ke
www.datalock.co.ke