§ 8581 — Establishment of the Delaware Gold Alert Program

(a) Each investigating law-enforcement agency shall implement an alert program, consistent with the ACIM Alert Program, for missing senior citizens, missing suicidal persons, missing persons with disabilities, and missing children, and may promulgate necessary rules and regulations for the program. The rules and regulations shall include the following:

(1) Procedures for the use of the Delaware Information Analysis Center (DIAC) to provide support to the investigating law-enforcement agency as a resource for the receipt, analysis, and dissemination of information regarding the missing person and the missing person’s whereabouts.

(2) Procedures for the investigating law-enforcement agency to use to verify whether a senior citizen, a suicidal person, a person with a disability, or a missing child is missing and the circumstances under which the agency must enter descriptive information of the missing person into the Delaware Criminal Justice Information System (DELJIS) and the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) system. The investigating law-enforcement agency shall further notify DIAC, who shall make all the necessary notifications and assist the investigating law-enforcement agency.

(3) The process for reporting the information to designated media outlets in Delaware.

(b) The Delaware State Police shall adopt rules and regulations for the use of DIAC to assist investigating law-enforcement agencies during their investigations as a resource for the receipt, analysis, and dissemination of information to those agencies that have a need and right to know about the missing person.

Legislative History

76 Del. Laws, c. 379, § 1 ; 70 Del. Laws, c. 186, § 1 ; 84 Del. Laws, c. 196, § 2