Family abduction

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...

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

• The tragic ties between missing and abducted children and child sex trafficking, spotlighted at the 2019 National AMBER Alert Symposium,
• The Navajo Nation symposium on child sex trafficking in tribal communities, and
• European police officers' animated video created for International Missing Children's Day.

The AMBER Advocate newsletter is now...

OJJDP has launched a refreshed AMBER Alert website. The refreshed website now includes access to the AMBER Alert in Indian Country website, a summary of the AMBER Alert in Indian Country Initiative, and training and technical assistance resources. The website, managed by the Office of Justice Programs (OJP), provides resources to help regional and state-level AMBER Alert training and coordination efforts...