When Amber Alerts are required
Local authorities issue Amber Alerts when investigators believe:
- An abduction of a child under the age of 18 has transpired
- The child is in danger of serious bodily harm and or death, either due to the actions of another or due to a proven mental or physical condition
- The missing child reports meet the Reasonable Cause to Believe criteria via eyewitness accounts and by elimination of other possibilities
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The child must also be in “imminent danger of serious bodily injury or death,” according to authorities.
For the alert to be effective, sufficient detailed details on the youngster must be made available to the general public.
The missing child must be under the age of 17 years old.
Amber Alert issued for Jax Wilson
An Amber Alert has been issued for Jax Wilson following his kidnapping in Australia.
A message from an alert system known as an “Amber Alert” requests assistance from the public in locating missing children.
When local police and Dallas-Fort Worth broadcasters joined together to create an early warning system, it was put into operation in 1996.
There are rules for Amber Alerts, one of which is that…
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