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.

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 ...

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.

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 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 ...

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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.

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.

With the search for Mariah Woods still underway, the ABC11 I-Team is going beyond the headline to answer questions about other missing children and the Amber Alert process.