§ 26-19-9 — Board of Education to Compile and Distribute List of Missing School Children

The State Board of Education shall perform the following functions:
(1) Collect each month a list of missing Alabama school children, with a photograph, if available, as provided by ACMEC. A missing Alabama school child shall be defined for the purposes of this section as a child under 18 years whose whereabouts are unknown and who may reasonably be expected to be attending an Alabama school. The list shall be designed to include such information as the board deems necessary for the identification of the missing school child.
(2) Compile from the information collected pursuant to subdivision (1) a list of missing school children, to be distributed monthly to all public school systems admitting children to kindergarten through grade 12. The list shall include the names of all such missing children, together with such other information, with photographs, when available. The school systems shall distribute this information to the public schools in the system by whatever manner each system deems appropriate.
(3) Obtain from principals of public, private, and parochial schools in Alabama the name, birthdate, and Social Security number of each pupil who enrolls in the school for the first time and submit the information to ACMEC within thirty (30) days of the pupil’s enrollment.

Legislative History

(Acts 1985, No. 85-538, p. 653, §9; Acts 1997, No. 97-416, p. 698, §1.)