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January 11, 2008

Honor National AMBER Alert Awareness Day; Sign Up for Wireless AMBER Alerts

AMBER Alerts Have Helped Rescue More
Than 375 Children

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 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.

Posted by admin at January 11, 2008 7:11 PM