The Cheese
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In thinking about LE establishing some type of an alert system, not an Amber Alert; an alert system for missing children. IMO, its next to impossible.
Very respectfully snipped to focus.
Our country, our government, the Department of Justice specifically, established a non-Amber Alert system years ago, NCMEC (National Organization for Missing and Exploited Children).
You can read about their history (very interesting - involved tireless efforts by John Walsh, father of Adam Walsh), their purpose, all the different activities they engage in for the government and law enforcement.
One of the things they do is issue alerts - in addition to Amber Alerts - for all missing children in our country, on the behalf of LE across the country.
It's at missingkids.com
A little while ago, I posted two posts in this thread with two different ways that everyone can opt in to receiving all the missing children alerts, for their state, or their region, or the whole country.
The problem is not that we or LE don't have a non-Amber Alert system - the problem is that the knowledge that people in the public can opt in to it is not widely publicized. It's only recently that publicizing that everyone in the public can opt in to receive the Amber Alerts was publicized. I expect a similar publicity campaign for the rest of the alerts in the coming years. Meantime, we can keep telling about them ourselves.
The more people get the alerts, the more we can do to get them out across the country, more widely and quickly, via social media, email, and hand distribution.