Program Overview
AmberView is an National Institute of Justice program designed to mass broadcast a current digital image and physical description of a missing or abducted child to law enforcement officials, the news media, and other pre-designated end users via Internet and wireless devices within minutes of an official Amber Alert.
AmberView provides law enforcement officials with a unique tool to immediately assist in the recovery of a missing or abducted child when time is most critical.
Within minutes of an official Amber Alert, law enforcement officials, media organizations, and communities are provided a current image and physical description of the missing child. The missing child’s image is broadcast to a variety of “end users” via PCs, PDAs, cell phones, and televised news alerts covering a 200-mile radius from the point of abduction.
AmberView utilizes existing technologies in a manner that is efficient, unobtrusive, and cost-efficient, while meeting the specific needs and requirements of law enforcement, parents, and the news media.
Significant Accomplishments
This initiative has achieved the following:
- AmberView is now available to all public, private and home-schooled students in grades K-12 across West Virginia;
- 54 of West Virginia’s 55 county school districts are participating;
- 25% statewide enrollment among students from 750 schools during first year of operation;
- Endorsed by West Virginia Attorney General, Secretary of Education, State Police, Chiefs of Police Association, and Sheriff’s Association;
- Progression from concept to application within 35 months; and
- Current working dialogue with representatives from Maryland and North Carolina to migrate AmberView to those states.
Learn more about AmberView www.amberview.org
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