Hi Julie,
We are obtaining some missing persons photos directly from law enforcement agencies who have been publishing some of their missing persons via Facebook. We have one agency here in Montana who is terrible at entering photos into NCIC BUT they post every photo of every missing person case on their Facebook. We’ll grab those images and put them in NCIC and on our website. We believe if they’re putting it on their social media pages – it has been vetted/verified.
On the flip side, a few years ago, we had an agency ask for a public alert using a Facebook photo when it turned out to be the kid’s cousin. So we encourage agencies to verify prior to entering social media images into NCIC.
Brian