print email comment close AMBER Alert Plan URL: http://www.missingkids.com/missingkids/servlet/PageServlet?LanguageCountry=en_US&PageId=991 Description: The site provides information on the AMBER (America's Missing: Broadcast Emergency Response) Alert Plan, "a voluntary partnership between law-enforcement agencies and broadcasters to activate an urgent bulletin in the most serious child-abduction cases. Broadcasters use the Emergency Alert System (EAS) ... to air a description of the abducted child and suspected abductor" over radio, television, and highway alert systems. From the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Publisher: National Center for Missing and Exploited Children Extra Keywords TV Amber Hagerman Library of Congress Subject Headings: Emergency communication systems Kidnapping Missing children LII Database Information: Record 8240 created by Julianna Hamann on 08/18/2002 Last modification on 01/06/2006 Last review by Charlotte Bagby on 12/01/2005 Published: 08/18/2002   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/8240