AMBER Alert

he Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) announces the availability of OJJDP News @ a Glance, May/June 2019. This issue’s top story and Message From the Administrator discuss the Department of Justice’s observance of National Missing Children’s Day.

Other features in this issue—

• Implementing the Juvenile Justice Reform Act
• OJJDP Holds Listening Session on Preventing and Responding to School Violence
• OJJDP Holds...

OJJDP has released the "AMBER Alert Field Guide for Law Enforcement Officers." Designed to help law enforcement officers improve their response to cases of missing or abducted children, the guide provides best practices from subject matter experts in AMBER Alert programs nationwide. Topics include establishing leads and leads management, search and recovery operations, screening and training volunteers, interacting with abduction victims' families...

The Office of Justice Programs has announced the publication of OJJDP's updated "AMBER Alert Best Practices" guide. This resource provides a "what works" approach to responding to cases of missing or abducted children at the state and regional levels. "Protecting children—especially those whose lives are in imminent danger—is fundamental to the mission of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention," said OJJDP...

OJJDP has released the fall 2017 issue of The AMBER Advocate newsletter. This issue features articles on:

• The death of Ashlynne Mike and the establishment of the Navajo Nation AMBER Alert system.
• Faces of the AMBER Alert Network.
• The role AMBER Alert played in a Florida child's recovery.
• AMBER Alert training. AMBER Alert international news.
• AMBER Alert in Indian Country.
• AMBER Alert briefs.

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