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Alicia Kozakiewicz at the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children's headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia (2015). The Center was founded in 1984, spurred by notable abductions such as the 1981 abduction and murder of six-year-old Adam Walsh from a shopping mall in Hollywood, Florida, and the 1979 abduction of six-year-old Etan Patz from New York City.
The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs) is a national clearinghouse and resource center for missing, unidentified, and unclaimed person cases throughout the United States. NamUs is funded and administered by the National Institute of Justice through a cooperative agreement with the University of North Texas Health Science ...
It was established in 2006 to replace the National Clearinghouse on Child Abuse and Neglect Information and the National Adoption Information Clearinghouse. [2] [3] The Child Welfare Information Gateway covers child-welfare topics, including family-centered practice, child abuse and neglect, abuse and neglect prevention, child protection ...
Mar. 12—Attorney General Raúl Torrez on Tuesday unveiled the first phase of a new interactive portal that allows the public to search a database of missing and murdered Indigenous people in New ...
The National Child Search Assistance Act of 1990 (NCSA) [1] (42 U.S.C. 5779 (Reporting Requirement) and 42 U.S.C. 5780 (State Requirements): The NCSA requires local, state and federal law enforcement agencies to immediately enter information about abducted children into the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) database without requiring a waiting period.
Missing Person File: Records on people—including children—who have been reported missing to law enforcement and there is a reasonable concern for their safety. Foreign Fugitive File: Records on people wanted by another country for a crime that would be a felony if it were committed in the United States.
That resource is a free online portal called the Virginia Veterans Network, whose launch Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced on Veterans Day at an annual veterans’ luncheon in Virginia Beach ...
Masonic Child Identification Programs (CHIP) are a charitable initiative by North American Masonic lodges to aid in the identification and recovery of missing children.CHIP programs are supported monetarily at the Grand Lodge level, and are staffed by volunteers from subordinate lodges as well as law enforcement and dental professionals.