Child abduction

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

• The training of Missouri officers on the law enforcement response to child sex trafficking.
• The Massachusetts AMBER Alert leading to the safe recovery of an abducted girl.
• Shelly Smitherman, Tennessee's AMBER Alert Coordinator.
• AMBER Alert in Indian Country.

The U.S. Department of Justice and the National Center for Missing...

In 1983, President Ronald Reagan proclaimed May 25 as National Missing Children's Day in memory of Etan Patz, a 6-year-old boy who disappeared from a New York City street corner. Each year, National Missing Children’s Day is encourages parents, guardians, caregivers, and others concerned with the well-being of children to make child safety a priority.

On May 20, 2020, the Department of Justice announced the...

OJJDP's AMBER Alert Training and Technical Assistance Program has launched a set of online investigative checklists to help tribal law enforcement respond to and investigate cases of missing, endangered, or abducted children. These checklists provide strategies for first responders, investigative officers, and supervisory officers involved in a missing or endangered child investigation. They are available in web, PDF, and mobile formats. These resources were...

Today, the U.S. Department of Justice announced the recipients of the 2020 National Missing Children's Day awards. These awards recognize the extraordinary efforts of individuals to find missing children and bring child sexual predators and child pornographers to justice. They include:

• Attorney General's Special Commendation        
• Missing Children's Law Enforcement Award
• Missing Children's Citizen Award
• Missing Children's Child Protection Award

The Department recognized nine...

On December 19, 2019, from 2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. ET, OJJDP will present "Reporting Children Missing from Care to NCMEC: Training #4." This webinar will explore the Preventing Sex Trafficking and Strengthening Families Act which requires social service agencies to immediately report missing foster care children to law enforcement and the OJJDP-supported National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC). The webinar will...