Facebook Now Provides Local AMBER Alerts for Missing Children

Thanks to a partnership between Facebook and NCMEC (the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children), Facebook users can now sign up to receive localized AMBER Alerts through their news feed.

The AMBER Alert™ Program is a voluntary partnership between law-enforcement agencies, broadcasters, transportation agencies, and the wireless industry, to activate an urgent bulletin in the most serious child-abduction cases. The goal of AMBER Alerts is to quickly involve the local community in helping to facilitate the safe return of the missing child. Since its birth, the AMBER Alert program has helped to save the lives of 525 children nationwide

Currently there are 56 new Facebook AMBER Alert pages that have been created – one for each U.S. state, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands and the District of Columbia – as well as 3 pages for Canadian provinces Ontario, Newfoundland and Labrador, and New Brunswick. Additionally Australia, France, Malaysia, the Netherlands and Ireland all have AMBER alert systems in place, so it is hoped that Facebook pages will soon be available for these locations as well

Today, January 13th 2011 marks the 15th anniversary of the abduction and murder of 9 year old Amber Hagerman – the little girl who is the namesake of the AMBER Alert program. In her memory, I ask the Pediatric Safety readers who use Facebook to please sign up for these alerts.

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1. Leslie M. says:

   January 13, 2011 at 8:22 am

   Thanks for letting us know Stef. I tweeted this very important message!

   Leslie
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   • sazucker says:

     January 13, 2011 at 9:51 am

     Most welcome! …thanks for coming by …and for helping to get the word out about these 🙂

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2. Terry Edwards says:

   January 13, 2011 at 10:09 am

   Nice site. Very useful. Following from Friends Following Friends Blog.
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3. Julie @Momspective says:

   January 13, 2011 at 12:35 pm

   I shared this on Facebook and Twitter to help spread the news, this is fantastic!

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   • sazucker says:

     January 13, 2011 at 12:43 pm

     Thanks so much!! (I thought it was pretty cool, too) 🙂

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4. Rebecca Wear Robinson says:

   January 14, 2011 at 11:41 am

   Great info – I’m putting it out to everyone I know.

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   • sazucker says:

     January 14, 2011 at 12:08 pm

     Thanks! I did too… With more people signing up, hopefully we can increase the possibility of finding an abducted child.

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