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Get Them Home Alive
Two Ways in Which You Can Help Get Abducted Children Home Alive: 1. Code Adam: Find out if the stores you frequent have a Code Adam policy (it means they secure and monitor every exit as soon as a child is lost). If not, you can get help setting up this policy by calling the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. 2. Amber Alert: When a child is abducted, time is of the essence. Every hour the child is in the hands of a stranger, the likelihood that the child will not return alive increases exponentially. After Amber Hagerman, 9, was abducted and killed in 1996, police in Arlington, Texas, instituted a new Crime-Stoppers program (as reported in an article in the November 2000 issue of Reader's Digest) "This is An Amber Alert" describes how police - when faced with an abduction - now call radio stations to activate the Emergency Alert System. Within minutes, normal broadcasts are interrupted by the distinctive Emergency Alert alarm tone, and information about the child and possible abductor are broadcast - and rebroadcast every 15 minutes. This plan has already saved lives and costs almost nothing to implement. Statewide Amber Alerts exist in several states, including California, Colorado, Minnesota, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. For assistance in setting up an Amber Alert in your community, contact the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. On April 30, 2003, President Bush signed into law a nationwide "Amber Alert" system to assist in the recovery of abducted children. The "Amber Alert" is named for Amber Hagerman, who was abducted and killed in Texas in 1996. The law also includes federal grants for creation of a national network of Amber Alerts; the possibility of lifetime supervision of sex offenders; the possibility of no pretrial release for accused sex offenders; lifetime sentences for repeat sex offenders; and tougher child pornography laws.
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