• A child abduction alert system (also Child Alert, Amber alert or Child Rescue Alert) is a tool used to alert the public in cases of worrying or life-threatening...
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    Amber alert (alternatively styled AMBER alert) or a child abduction emergency alert (SAME code: CAE) is a message distributed by a child abduction alert system...
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  • term child abduction includes two legal and social categories which differ by their perpetrating contexts: abduction by members of the child's family...
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  • Murder of Rachael Runyan (category Child murder in the United States)
    when the state adopted the national AMBER alert child abduction emergency alert system. The abduction and murder of Rachael Runyan was a factor in the 1983...
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    focus on child abductions led governmental entities to take action. Many states instituted Amber alerts systems and a national Amber alert was included...
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  • Alerta Răpire Copil (category Child safety)
    Alertă Răpire Copil (English: Child Abduction Alert) is the child abduction alert system used by the Romanian Ministry of Administration and Interior and...
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  • Utah superseded the then-existing Rachael Alert with the nationwide AMBER alert child abduction alert system—in part to conform with recently implemented...
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    Emergency Alert Alberta Emergency Public Warning System (replaced by Alberta Emergency Alert) Alert Ready (Canada) Automatic Warning System Child abduction alert...
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    including, in most states, the AMBER Alert System for child abduction emergencies. In 2016, three additional weather alert codes were authorized for use in...
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  • and location of abduction; and degree of violence utilized to facilitate the abduction. In instances where a child has been abducted by a stranger with...
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  • Amber alert is a child abduction emergency alert message. Amber alert may also refer to: Amber alert in an alert state Alert state amber in the UK BIKINI...
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    Management Agency. A child abduction alert in the New York City region in July 2013 for a 7-month-old boy who had been abducted. The massive inconvenience...
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    international child abduction while also being widely regarded as having one of the least effective systems of protecting and returning internationally abducted children...
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  • never found. Her murder would later inspire the creation of the Amber alert system. Diao Aiqing (19), a student at Nanjing University, China, disappeared...
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  • communities with their copyrighted Abduction Central Alert (ACA) community alert notification system. The Child Alert Foundation was the first organization...
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  • Amber alert, a child abduction emergency alert General quarters Homeland Security Advisory System, with a "Severe (Red)" threat level Kool DJ Red Alert (born...
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  • codes are coded messages often announced over a public address system of a hospital to alert staff to various classes of on-site emergencies. The use of...
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  • AMBER Alert national system Archived 4 June 2010 at the Wayback Machine "Specific Action Plan Needed to Improve Response to Parental Child Abduction" (PDF)...
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  • Murder of Tori Stafford (category Child abduction in Canada)
    failure to announce an AMBER alert was criticized by the public, and has been the focus of a review of the AMBER alert system in Canada. The circumstances...
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  • Alarm fatigue (redirect from Alert fatigue)
    deterioration. The amber alert system used in countries such as the United States and Canada to notify the public of a child abduction has been theorized as...
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  • tennis player Alerta Răpire Copil, child abduction alert system in Romania. Copil (son of Malinalxochitl), mythical child of the Aztec goddess Malinalxochitl...
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    four-year-old American child who disappeared in Kennewick, Washington in 2003. Her case involved the first use of an AMBER Alert in the state of Washington...
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  • The National Public Alerting System (NPAS; French: Système national d'alertes à la population), branded as Alert Ready (French: En Alerte), is the national...
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  • Murder of Hailey Owens (category Child abduction in the United States)
    state's AMBER Alert system, ultimately leading to the 2019 passage of HAILEY'S Law, which empowers law enforcement officers to issue alerts more quickly...
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    by the Emergency Alert System and NOAA Weather Radio (where they are termed "Child Abduction Emergency" or "Amber Alerts"). The alerts are also issued...
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  • Murder of Zainab Ansari (category Child murder in Pakistan)
    passage of Pakistan's first national child safety law, known as the Zainab Alert Bill (similar to the AMBER Alert system in the United States). The bill directs...
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  • department to issue an emergency alert using emergency broadcasting system on mobile phones within a 20 km region where the child was last seen. A major key...
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    pages with titles beginning with Kidnapping of Child abduction Extraordinary rendition Fetal abduction Forced disappearance Gooning Hostage Human trafficking...
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    Parental abduction: Minors who are abducted by their parents or guardians for unknown reasons. Non-parental abduction: Minors who are abducted by non-parental...
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    Elizabeth Smart (category Child crime victim advocates)
    1987) is an American child safety activist and commentator for ABC News. She gained national attention at age 14 when she was abducted from her home in Salt...
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