Seems like Bremerton / Kitsap still hasn't learned.... Actually quite a depressing article.
Parents: authorities won’t help find children
“If a 15-year-old female is sick of mom and dad’s rules and runs away to party or be with her boyfriend and then shows up two or three days later, that’s not something that we’re going to look into,” said deputy Scott Wilson, spokesman for Kitsap County Sheriff’s Office. “They’re not actually missing.”
Wilson said that in 2011, there were approximately 236 cases of teens reported “missing” by their families in Kitsap County, “almost one for every day.”
However, a teen must fall within a five-point criteria to be deemed missing and not just a “runaway” by the Sheriff’s Office and Bremerton Police Department.
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Fisher said that there are “currently no missing children in the City of Bremerton” according to their definition. The last missing person was in 2006.
(My note - This would be Joe... And the line about no missing children since is complete BS.)
More:
http://www.centralkitsapreporter.com/news/139401813.html