Mattie's Call
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Mattie's Call is an American law-enforcement-initiated public notification system to locate missing elderly, or otherwise disabled persons.
History
[edit]The first version of the Mattie's Call was drafted in 1996. From 1996 to 2009, 127 Mattie's Calls had been triggered.[1]
In 2004, radio stations and local law-enforcement agencies in the Atlanta, Georgia, area broadcast information about the elderly Mattie Moore missing from her home.[2] Moore, a 67-year-old woman who had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, wandered away from her Atlanta home in April 2004 and was found dead 8 months later in a wood a few hundred meters from her home.[1]
Mattie's Call was created by an act of the Georgia General Assembly[3] in 2006. It is named after Mattie Moore.
Description
[edit]Mattie's Call was patterned after the AMBER Alert system created to locate missing, or abducted children. It uses public-service announcements on radio stations, displays on publicly controlled signaling devices and transmissions to law-enforcement agencies in an attempt to locate the missing endangered person.[4]
Mattie's Call is an example of a Silver Alert system to locate missing senior citizens.
See also
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Further reading
[edit]- (novel) Stacy Campbell (April 19, 2016). Mattie's Call (Zane Presents). Strebor Books. ISBN 978-1593096007.
References
[edit]- ^ a b Andria Simmons (November 20, 2009). "Mattie's Call a lifeline for the lost". AJC. Retrieved October 16, 2019.
- ^ History Archived July 14, 2014, at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ hb728.html Archived March 21, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ georgia.gov - Activation Criteria.