AMBER Advocate Magazine

Issue 42

This issue highlights how the AMBER Alert Training and Technical Assistance Program adapts to the COVID-19 pandemic by offering virtual, instructor-led training courses through platforms like Zoom, enabling interactive learning for child protection professionals. A successful AMBER Alert in Utah results in the safe recovery of a missing infant, thanks to the state’s updated alert plan and Wireless Emergency Alert system, with two sisters responding to the alert on their phones. Pennsylvania’s AMBER Alert Coordinator, Corporal Shawn Kofluk, is profiled for his advocacy of mandatory training and mock alerts. The Navajo Nation issues its first independent AMBER Alert, safely recovering two sisters using a cloud-based system. Internationally, the Netherlands plans to replace its AMBER Alert system with Burgernet, raising concerns from AMBER Alert Europe, while the READ Act proposes expanding alerts to all U.S. territories, and Kentucky enacts a law requiring public notification within four hours of a missing person report.

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