Amber Alert Background
Law and background created by findlaw s team of legal writers and editors last updated february 27 2019 the amber alert system is intended to quickly and widely disseminate information about child abductions.
Amber alert background. Sc amber alert background in 1993 at the request of then state representative lindsey graham the state of south carolina in cooperation with the law enforcement community and south carolina broadcasters developed and initiated a statewide emergency broadcast alert system operation child alert for missing abducted children in south carolina. Description stay up to date with real time amber alert update in the us. It originated in the united states in 1996. The director of the department of public safety has designated a state amber alert coordinator.
Her body was found four days later. An amber alert also amber alert or a child abduction emergency alert same code. In an interview in 2016 20 years after amber s murder the grieving mother said there s another part of me that wonders what would have happened if we would have had the alert when amber went missing. In response to community concern following this tragedy the association of radio managers with the assistance of area law enforcement in arlington texas created.
Broadcast emergency response the alert was named after amber hagerman a 9 year old girl abducted and. The emergency alert system eas is utilized in missouri to broadcast amber alert s to local media. The amber alert web portal and the national center for missing and exploited children s wireless alert are utilized as secondary alert systems sas. Amber is a backronym for america s missing.
Cae is a message distributed by a child abduction alert system to ask the public for help in finding abducted children.
