More than 160 participants from 28 Mexican states attended the second national Alerta AMBER (AMBER Alert) Forum on May 26-27, 2014. The two-day training was held in Mexico City and included case studies and best practices for using social media and other means to communicate quickly when a child is abducted.
Mexico's Attorney General's Office reported that 105 children have been recovered through the country's new child abduction alert system. Mexico issued 187 alerts nationwide between May 2012 and November 30, 2013.
The meeting in May was also used to launch Mexico's official AMBER Alert website: www.alertaamber.gob.mx. The website will provide case management for distributing alert information. A mobile app was also developed to notify the public about an AMBER Alert.