Amber Alerts Are Often Ineffective. A New Law Gives Local Police More Control. ... Relative to the rest of the country, they are: Texas issues the most alerts of any state.

No charges will be filed against the man who took a two-year-old from a Tacoma Wendy's, sparking an AMBER Alert last month.

The alert system was used for the first time exactly one year after legislation was passed. What we know about an IAN alert.

Dad sparked an AMBER alert after saying his child was ‘kidnapped’ in New York. Now he’s facing a murder charge - Luciano ...

So how would Athena’s Law improve the effectiveness of AMBER Alerts? Right. So as I mentioned, there’s a specific criteria that you have to meet every time there’s a missing child case and ...

Texas issues more Amber Alerts than most other states in the United States. In 2018, it ranked No. 1 with 23 alerts, according to data from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

California signed Amber Alerts into law in 2002. The new Ebony Alert, meanwhile, isn’t the only emergency notification that’s geared toward specific demographics.

The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) created the statewide alert program to quickly notify the public about urgent ...

The CHP issues an AMBER Alert at the request of a law enforcement agency investigating the abduction of a child or at-risk individual. “Every second counts when a child is abducted,” she ...

A Blue Alert went out Wednesday night for Benjamin Song, who is wanted for a violent attack that happened on July 4, 2025, at the Prairieland Detention Center, an ICE facility in Alvarado, Texas.

Minnesota's most recent Amber Alert, for example, is the first to come from a tribal reservation. When a 3-year-old boy from Red Lake was allegedly abducted by his mother in March, the alert rang out.