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1. Delaware State Police uses Facebook and Twitter for all alerts.
2. We allow comments to promote what we hope to be positive public engagement.
3. We share news updates through a press release which we also link on our social media channels.
4 & 5. Pursuant to Delaware HB 476, it is mandatory for Delaware law enforcement agencies to remove Gold Alert notifications (including cancellations) within 72 hours of receiving the notification that the individual is no longer missing. To comply with this new legislation, we mark the Gold Alert as “private” on WordPress and delete the alert on social media. We are currently working towards achieving full compliance with this regulation, but the process of manually removing each one is taking some time.