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2003 SESSION

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HB 2102 Code Adam alerts; Virginia Amber Alert Program.

Introduced by: Clarke N. Hogan | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Code Adam alerts; Virginia Amber Alert Program. Requires state buildings open to the public to have a Code Adam program as a preventive tool against child abductions and for locating lost children in certain public buildings. The alerts are used to lock down buildings where a child has been lost or possibly abducted. The bill requires the Board of Education to develop, in cooperation with private entities, a program to provide parents with child identification kits through school distribution. The kits shall include identification information about the subject child, including current photo, fingerprints, DNA samples, and important medical information and shall include instructions for the proper safekeeping of the kit. Such kits shall be held for safekeeping by the parent, not a school, school board, or other public entity. The bill also establishes the voluntary Amber Alert Program as a means to provide notice and information of a child abduction to the public by the media (local, regional or statewide) to be activated initially in the discretion of the local law-enforcement officials.


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