CREATE ALERT/MISSING PERSON W/ DISABILITY.

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View NCGA Bill Details(link is external)2025-2026 Session
House Bill 857 (Public) Filed Wednesday, April 9, 2025
AN ACT CREATING THE NORTH CAROLINA MISSING WITH DISABILITY ALERT SYSTEM.
Intro. by T. Brown, Cunningham, Hawkins, Alston.

Status: Ref to the Com on Judiciary 2, if favorable, Emergency Management and Disaster Recovery, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House (House action) (Apr 10 2025)
H 857

Bill Summaries:

  • Summary date: Apr 9 2025 - View Summary

    Enacts new statute GS 143B-1022A to establish the North Carolina Missing with Disability Alert System (NCMDAS) within the existing North Carolina Center for Missing Persons (Center) to rapidly disseminate information regarding missing persons or children who are believed to be a person with a disability as defined by GS 168A-3(7a). States the purpose of NCMDAS is to protect missing persons and missing children from potential abuse or other physical harm, neglect, or exploitation.

    Requires the Center or a law enforcement agency (LEA) to issue an alert upon receipt of a request that involves a missing person or missing child as defined in the act.

    Further requires the Center and all LEAs to:

    • Adopt guidelines and develop procedures for issuing an alert that ensure that specific health information about the missing person or missing child is not made public through the alert or otherwise.
    • Provide education and training to encourage radio and television broadcasters to participate in the alert.

    Requires the Center and all LEAs to consult with the Department of Transportation and develop a procedure for use of overhead permanent changeable message to disseminate permissible information in cases where doing so would enable motorists to assist in recovering the missing person or missing child. Directs the same parties to develop guidelines for the content, length, and frequency of those messages.