On January 13, communities across the country will observe National AMBER Alert Awareness Day – a day to recognize the collaborative efforts and successes of the AMBER Alert program to assist in the recovery of abducted children. To honor this program as vital to the safety of children, NCMEC encourages all wireless subscribers to sign up for Wireless AMBER Alerts.The AMBER Alert Program, created after the 1996 abduction and murder of 9-year-old Amber Hagerman, is a voluntary partnership between law-enforcement agencies, broadcasters, and transportation agencies. The program activates an urgent bulletin in the most serious child-abduction cases.
A description of the abducted child and the suspected abductor is broadcast to millions of media listeners and viewers. The public becomes the eyes and ears of law enforcement.
The AMBER Alert program is coordinated on a national level by the U.S. Department of Justice. For more information about the National AMBER Alert Initiative, please visit http://www.amberalert.gov/.
Nationwide there are 119 AMBER Alert Plans, including 28 regional, 38 local, and statewide plans in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Source: http://www.missingkids.com/missingkids/servlet/PageServlet?LanguageCountry=en_US&PageId=3036
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I think the Amber alert is a wondeful system that has been put in to place to help find children. I pray to God that any child that an Amber Alert is issued for found safe and secure. What I wanted to mention is the "Code Adam" which Moms and Dads are more likely to be a part of then hopefully an Amber Alert. A Code Adam is issued for a missing child in a store or public place. Each store has different procedures, but some actually go on lock down while a full sweep of the store is handled to insure the child is found and returned to his/her parents. More then likely it was just a lost / wandering child, but in some cases it can prevent an Amber Alert for an abducted child. Parents can't assume there child is lost or hiding and look for them on their own, they need to notify the store immediatly. This system was put in place to prevent abducted children. We need to use this and know that it is available. I was amazed when the subject came up at work and noone knew about it.
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