I agree no matter what the circumstances are no one should skew the truth to try and make themselves look better, the important thing is to tell the truth to find the child!
This article states mom called LE within the hour of finding JF gone and LE responded. (was this when she lied to them?) The article goes on to say she was told to go to the juvenile division and report him missing (which I think is wrong) Why couldn't the first responding officers report it to them, is this a jurisdiction thing or what??!! It does not say what time she went to the juvenile division, just that that his information was entered into the database at 9:30 pm.
Amber Alert intentionally delayed
A few minutes later, the mother arrived home, Harris said. Jonathan was gone, and the cordless phone was missing, he said.
Within an hour, relatives called police, Harris said.
"Patrol responds by like 3:30 p.m. and they're there from 3:30 to 4:15 or so," Harris said.
The family was told to go to HPD's station on Mykawa Road to file an official missing child report with the juvenile division. Officers there entered details about Jonathan into the national crime information center database about 9:30 p.m., Harris said
He explained that the decision to hold off issuing an Amber Alert for Jonathan until Tuesday evening was a deliberate strategy by investigators.
Police knew that without a vehicle type or suspect description, a vague alert would generate a flood of information, some of it potentially useful, but much of it simply overwhelming, he said.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7356276.html
An AA was issued early on in the Haleigh Cummings case and there was no vehicle type or suspect description.