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AMBER Alert Plan
The AMBER Alert System began in 1997 when Dallas-Fort Worth broadcasters
teamed up with local police to develop an early warning system
to help find abducted children quickly.
AMBER stands for America's Missing: Broadcast Emergency Response.
It is a notification program to help locate missing children believed to have been
abducted. The Emergency Alert System (formerly known as the Emergency Broadcast System)
is used to alert the public via television and radio in the event of an AMBER Alert.
The AMBER Alert System was created
as a legacy to 9-year-old Amber Hagerman, who was kidnapped while riding her
bicycle in Arlington, Texas. Other states and localities have since set up their own
AMBER plans as the idea was adopted across the United States. Today 46 of the 50
states have implemented Amber Alert plans.
On April 30, 2003, President George W. Bush signed the Prosecutorial Remedies
and Other Tools to End the Exploitation of Children Today (PROTECT) Act of 2003
into law.
This Act described the national coordination of state and local AMBER Alert programs,
including guidance for how AMBER Alerts should be issued and disseminated.
Additional information can be found on the NCMEC site,
the USDOJ site
and the Polly Klaas Foundation's AmberAlertNow.org.
Please check the listings below to find more information about AMBER Plans in your state.
United States
If a state doesn't have a link it either has no statewide AMBER Plan or it doesn't maintain
a site about it.
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