SB108 Alabama 2015 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Vivian Davis Figures Senator

Democrat

Session

Regular Session 2015

Title

Missing children, Emergency Missing Child Alert System, created, administered by Alabama Law Enforcement Agency, procedures for activation, limited immunity, Haiwayi Robinson Emergency Missing Child Alert System Act

Description

Under existing law, when a local law enforcement agency receives a report that a child is missing, the law enforcement agency is required to conduct a preliminary investigation to determine whether the child has been abducted. If the agency determines the child has been abducted, the agency then reports information to the Alabama Center for Missing and Exploited Children (ACMEC) within the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency, the National Crime Information Center (NCIC), and the Alabama Criminal Justice Information Center (ACJIC).

This bill would create the Hiawayi Robinson Emergency Missing Child Alert System to expedite notice to the public regarding a missing and endangered child.

This bill would require the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency to implement the alert system and would require all local law enforcement agencies to participate in the system.

This bill would provide parameters for when an alert for a missing child is activated or deactivated by a local law enforcement agency.

This bill would require the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency to research enhanced technological methods for the expeditious public notification of a missing child, including electronic and web-based technologies and rapid telephone systems that alert residents in a targeted area, and implement those technological methods if feasible.

This bill would also provide limited immunity for those persons participating in the dissemination of an alert under the system.

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Subjects

Children