Bangladesh Launches MUN Alert: A New National Standard
Bangladesh has officially launched MUN Alert (Missing Urgent Notification), a national child recovery system explicitly modeled after the AMBER Alert. Spearheaded by the Criminal Investigation Department...
Cross-Border K9 Deployment Locates Endangered Child Before Deep Freeze
The safe recovery of a 10-year-old in Sioux Falls offers a case study in scene management during weather-critical operations. Facing an Extreme Cold Warning, Sioux...
‘Operation Shine the Light’ Recovers 8 Endangered Youth
Highlighting the effectiveness of a multidisciplinary task force model for recovering endangered runaways who may not meet strict AMBER Alert criteria, officials in...
700 Volunteers and AMBER Alert Lead to Safe Recovery in Sub-Zero Temperatures
Demonstrating the critical impact of rapid vehicle identification, the Sherburne County (Minnesota) Sheriff's Office successfully recovered a missing 7-year-old girl just 90 minutes after issuing...
Multi-Agency Operation Recovers 46 Missing Youths in Westchester County
The Westchester Missing Child Rescue Operation successfully located 46 missing, endangered youth in New York. This three-day intensive search achieved an extraordinary recovery rate...
Letter In Loving Memory of My Daughter, Ashley Johnson-Barr
The father of a 10-year-old girl who was abducted and murdered in Alaska writes an open letter to her to celebrate what should have...
Case Detectives Past & Present: Amber Hagerman ‘Did Not Die in Vain’ & ‘Our Goal Is To Get Justice’
Three decades after Amber Hagerman’s 1996 abduction inspired the AMBER Alert, her case remains unsolved. We spoke with the lead investigators—past and present—about the...
Amber’s Legacy: A Timeline
The AMBER Alert program mobilizes communities to find abducted children. By broadcasting urgent details through television, radio, highway signs, and cell phones, the system...
Overarching Lessons From the Amber Hagerman Case
Thirty years after her abduction and murder, Amber Hagerman’s legacy is the AMBER Alert system, which has saved thousands of young lives thanks to...
Irish authorities investigating 52 cases of international parental child abduction
Ireland’s Central Authority—which works with the country’s Department of Justice to handle international parental child abduction (IPCA) cases—is attempting to resolve 52 cases involving...
UAE contributes to training officers involved in international operation against child sexual abuse
The United Arab Emirates (UAE), represented by the Ministry of Interior and in coordination with the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute...
European museums display children’s drawings to spotlight international parental child abduction
Art and cultural institutions across five European countries teamed up this summer to display children’s drawings to raise awareness about international parental abduction (IPCA),...
AMBER Alert in Indian Country team attend MMIP memorial in Alaska
Members of AATTAP’s AMBER Alert in Indian Country (AIIC) team attended a powerful missing and murdered Indigenous persons (MMIP) memorial bench dedication in Fairbanks,...
Bill proposes better care for Indigenous families
Draft legislation by Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski—the federal Native Children’s Commission Implementation Act of 2025—calls for increased funding and new programs aimed at improving...
$10K reward offered for discovery of 13-year-old
A combined $10,000 reward is being offered for information leading to the discovery of 13-year-old Sa’Wade Birdinground, last seen at her grandparents’ home on...
Eagle-eyed friends spot car wanted in AMBER Alert
Shortly after phones in Prince George’s County, Maryland, began buzzing about a SUV wanted in a suspected child abduction, a group of friends captured...
Digital fingerprinting app helps ID missing children
As a young detective, Charles Still would pour through files on his desk as he handled upwards of 70 open cases of missing children....
Texas operation brings home 30 missing minors
More than two dozen missing children have been found in Texas after a nearly three-week operation. Ten agencies including the San Antonio Police, Bexar...