§ 26-19A-5 — Missing and Endangered Persons Alert - Activation

Once a determination has been made to activate the missing and endangered person media alert, the department shall do the following:
(1) Issue a local media alert via email indicating that an individual living with a mental disability, physical disability, Alzheimer’s disease, dementia, or autism is missing, or an individual has been abducted, and the individual is believed to be in danger.
(2) Prepare and send via email the information and description of the missing and endangered person to the media in the appropriate area.
(3) Supplement the information by descriptions or photographs of the individual to the media and the public through the following:
a. Email description.
b. Post the missing and endangered person’s photograph on the department’s website.
(4)a. Once the missing and endangered person is found or the case is closed, the initiating law enforcement agency shall notify the department, which shall distribute a media alert cancellation.
b. Law enforcement officials shall notify other agencies of the cancellation.

Legislative History

(Act 2009-145, p. 280, §5; Act 2020-40, §1; Act 2023-348, §1.)