AMBER is an acronym that stands for America’s Missing: Broadcast Emergency Response and was created in Texas as a legacy to 9-year-old Amber Hagerman, who was kidnapped and killed in 1996. Today, all 50 states have AMBER plans.
The AMBER Alert System is an early warning program designed to help quickly locate abducted children in local communities.
It works like this: following an abduction, law enforcement notifies broadcasters and transportation officials, who interrupt transmissions to get the word out as quickly as possible across all local broadcast media.
For details, see the federal government’s AMBER Alert website.
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