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Turquoise Alerts aimed to call attention to missing Indigenous people. But the first alert in Arizona involved a White girl.
On July 23, Arizona activated its recently-created Turquoise Alert for the first time. While the alert was subsequently ...
Arizona has four types of emergency alerts that can be activated when other law enforcement methods have been exhausted.
(WLUK) -- Brown County Emergency Management is apologizing for sending an alert on a police situation outside the warning area. On Wednesday morning, police responded to an incident in the area of ...
Seventy-four percent of children who are kidnapped and later found murdered are killed within the first three hours after being taken, and 99 percent are killed within the first 24 hours. That ...
A crisis communication expert says everyday notifications are weakening the impact of life-saving emergency alerts.
Arizona's Governor Katie Hobbs launched the Turquoise Alert to help find at-risk individuals, particularly in Tribal communities.
On Wednesday afternoon (July 9) just before 4 p.m., many people in the Shreveport-Bossier area received a pair of emergency alerts on their phones similar to the ones sent out for an Amber Alert or a ...
The community's quick response to the Amber Alert was crucial, Margeson added. "We were really fortunate that somebody recognized the vehicle and called the authorities right away, didn't delay on ...
Child safety advocates and Washington state lawmakers met on the steps of Seattle City Hall Friday to call for a review of Washington’s Amber Alert system. Their calls are in response to the ...
Antonio Jackson, a 4-year-old who was the subject of an Amber Alert on Friday, has been located and is safe, Baltimore County police told 11 News.
As the manhunt for Travis Decker stretches into Day 10, the girls' mother's attorney stated an Amber Alert should have been issued by WSP.