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National AMBER Alert Awareness Day—January 13, 2009
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of CTIA-The Wireless Association® and the
U.S. Department of Justice to deliver AMBER Alerts
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AMBER Alerts Have Helped Rescue More Than 432 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 120 AMBER Alert Plans, including 29 regional, 38
local, and statewide plans in all 50 states, the District of Columbia,
Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Learn more about the AMBER Alert Program:
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