How does the Wireless AMBER Alert Plan work?
By design, law enforcement initiates the primary emergency AMBER notification, defines the geographic boundaries of the Alert notification and has the legal jurisdiction, through the child’s entry into the National Crime Information Center (NCIC), to act upon the information contained in an AMBER Alert. Department of Justice (DOJ), the agency responsible for coordination of AMBER Alerts on the national level, has asked the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) to act as its agent for coordination of secondary AMBER dissemination. NCMEC’s role is to receive AMBER Alerts from DOJ-recognized AMBER coordinators and disseminate those Alerts to secondary distributors, as approved by NCMEC. Wireless AMBER Alert, an NCMEC-approved secondary distributor, will compliment broadcast networks, highway billboards and other catalysts working together to rapidly transmit the approximately 200-250 abducted children bulletins that are issued annually. Syniverse will serve as the cle
