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Mattie's Call

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Mattie's Call is an American law-enforcement-initiated public notification system to locate missing elderly, or otherwise disabled persons.

History

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The first version of the Mattie's Call was drafted in 1996. From 1996 to 2009, 127 Mattie's Calls had been triggered.[1]

In 2004, radio stations and local law-enforcement agencies in the Atlanta, Georgia, area broadcast information about the elderly Mattie Moore missing from her home.[2] Moore, a 67-year-old woman who had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, wandered away from her Atlanta home in April 2004 and was found dead 8 months later in a wood a few hundred meters from her home.[1]

Mattie's Call was created by an act of the Georgia General Assembly[3] in 2006. It is named after Mattie Moore.

Description

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Mattie's Call was patterned after the AMBER Alert system created to locate missing, or abducted children. It uses public-service announcements on radio stations, displays on publicly controlled signaling devices and transmissions to law-enforcement agencies in an attempt to locate the missing endangered person.[4]

Mattie's Call is an example of a Silver Alert system to locate missing senior citizens.

See also

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Further reading

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  • (novel) Stacy Campbell (April 19, 2016). Mattie's Call (Zane Presents). Strebor Books. ISBN 978-1593096007.

References

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  1. ^ a b Andria Simmons (November 20, 2009). "Mattie's Call a lifeline for the lost". AJC. Retrieved October 16, 2019.
  2. ^ History Archived July 14, 2014, at the Wayback Machine.
  3. ^ hb728.html Archived March 21, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ georgia.gov - Activation Criteria.
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