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 1                          HOUSE RESOLUTION

 2        WHEREAS, The  Amber  Plan  is  an  early  warning  system
 3    available  for  use  by law enforcement agencies to alert the
 4    general public over the  Emergency  Broadcasting  System  via
 5    television  and  radio  when  a  child has been kidnapped and
 6    police believe the child may be in danger; and

 7        WHEREAS, The Amber Plan was created  in  the  Dallas-Fort
 8    Worth region after the murder of Amber Hagerman, a 9-year old
 9    girl who was abducted from her Arlington, Texas home in 1996;
10    and

11        WHEREAS, The Amber Plan has led to the successful outcome
12    of  seven  out  of  thirty  child  abduction  cases since its
13    activation in Texas in 1997; and

14        WHEREAS, The Florida Department of  Law  Enforcement  has
15    recently adopted the Florida Missing Child Alert Program, the
16    first  statewide  program  designed  after the Amber Plan, to
17    provide an immediate radio alert to the public  when  reports
18    of  a  child abduction have been confirmed by law enforcement
19    agencies; and

20        WHEREAS, The State of Oklahoma has adopted a  version  of
21    the Amber Plan as an early warning system to alert the public
22    when  a  child  has  been  kidnapped in an effort to coerce a
23    kidnapper into releasing the child, for fear of being caught;
24    and

25        WHEREAS, The Illinois counties of Knox and St. Clair  and
26    the  metropolitan  St.  Louis  area have implemented programs
27    resembling the Amber Plan to aid in the  search  for  missing
28    and abducted children; therefore, be it

29        RESOLVED,   BY   THE  HOUSE  OF  REPRESENTATIVES  OF  THE
30    NINETY-FIRST GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS,  that
31    we  urge the implementation of the Illinois Emergency Missing
 
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 1    Child Alert Program by the Department  of  State  Police,  in
 2    conjunction  with  the  Illinois Emergency Management Agency,
 3    the  Illinois  Broadcasting  Association,  and  the   Federal
 4    Communications  Commission,  as an emergency alert program to
 5    make information regarding a missing child available  to  the
 6    public  for the purposes of recovering the missing child; and
 7    be it further

 8        RESOLVED, That suitable  copies  of  this  resolution  be
 9    presented to the heads of the Department of State Police, the
10    Illinois    Emergency   Management   Agency,   the   Illinois
11    Broadcasting  Association,  and  the  Federal  Communications
12    Commission.

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