Court TV) -- An alert system dating back to the Cold War and since used to
broadcast weather emergencies is being praised for helping to save the
lives
of two California teens abducted at gunpoint on Thursday.
The California Child Safety AMBER Network, a child abduction alert system,
was unveiled statewide on July 24 in the wake of the Samantha Runnion
kidnapping and murder and was put to a serious test just six days later by
the shocking abduction of the two girls.
While attention is now focused on the California system, it is only the
most
recent of some 41 such AMBER alert systems that have sprouted up locally
and
statewide since it was launched in Texas in 1996. In the last two months
alone at least seven similar systems have been planned or implemented and
advocates for the alerts believe the California case will only help to
speed
that growth.
"We are talking with someone in almost every state across the country,"
said
Joann Donnellan, a spokeswoman for the National Center for Missing and
Exploited Children, the organization that helped spearhead a campaign to
take the system nationwide last October. "I guarantee you that by the end
of
next year the whole map will be covered."
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