FACTS

• AMBER stands for “America’s Missing: Broadcast Emergency Responseï?½? and was created as a legacy to 9-year-old Amber Hagerman, who was kidnapped while riding her bicycle in Arlington, Texas, then brutally murdered.
• 76% of abducted children who are murdered are dead within 3 hours of the abduction and 88.5% are dead within 24 hours.
• 336 children have been reunited with their families because of AMBER Alerts.
• 70% of cell phones are able to receive wireless AMBER Alerts as text messages.
• 100% of computers can have the AMBER Alert Ticker downloaded onto them.
• AMBER Alerts are active in all 50 states.

TAKE ACTION TODAY

• Pay attention to AMBER Alert signs on the freeway or on TV.
• Sign-up to receive AMBER Alert text messaging on your cell phone.
• Download the AMBER Alert Ticker onto your computer.
• If you see or receive an AMBER Alert, don’t take it lightly. The perpetrator might be closer than you think.

YOU MATTER

Protecting children from abduction and locating those who have been abducted is the twofold purpose of AMBER Alerts. They increase the number of people who can help locate an abducted child or deter predators, and they have caused perpetrators to release the abducted child after hearing or seeing the AMBER Alert. Remember, those first three hours are everything to that child and his or her family. Your eyes and action could mean the difference between a life lost and a life saved.