AMBER Advocate Magazine

Issue 49

This issue highlights Christopher Becenti’s leadership in expanding Wireless Emergency Alert (WEA) access across the Navajo Nation, successfully lobbying Apple and the FCC to ensure iPhone users with iOS15 receive alerts. The Nation’s mass-notification system is strengthened by over $1.16 billion in ARPA broadband funding. A front-lines story from Texas details the safe recovery of three-year-old Christopher Ramirez after four days missing, aided by a Regional Endangered Missing Child Advisory and a community search effort, with Chuck Fleeger’s use of a shortened WEA URL reaching over 33,000 people. In Illinois, citizen Brittney Ford is honored for responding to an AMBER Alert and rescuing a three-month-old infant taken during a stolen van incident. Wisconsin AMBER Alert Coordinator Melissa Marchant is profiled, sharing how her cousin’s 1994 murder inspired her criminal justice career. Internationally, Ukraine partners with Facebook to launch an AMBER Alert network, and AMBER Alert Europe introduces the “Friend or Monster?” campaign to combat online grooming.

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