Amber Alert

safety

An Amber Alert is a public emergency broadcast used in the United States to rapidly disseminate critical information about a high-risk child abduction. Law issue an activation o...

Society & Culture

The Amber Alert story begins with Amber Hagerman, a nine-year-old girl abducted while riding her bicycle in Arlington, Texas, on January 13, 1996. Her murder prompted local radi...

relationship

An Amber Alert is named after Amber Hagerman, a young girl abducted and murdered in Arlington, Texas in 1996, while the word amber commonly refers to fossilized tree resin prize...

missing-persons

Below are the most important confirmed details about Amber Hagerman’s abduction, the investigation, and the case outcome to date. Specifics are sourced from official filings,...

Safety and Emergency Alerts

There is no active statewide or regionally significant Amber Alert issued for Asheboro, North Carolina at this time. Local officials would issue an alert only when a verified ch...

public-safety

A Kentucky Amber Alert is a public notification issued when a child is believed to be in imminent danger of serious harm or death and there is enough descriptive information abo...

News Updates

As of this update, there is no single statewide Amber Alert active for New York at this moment. If an AMBER Alert is issued in your area, it will appear through the New York Sta...

Guides And Explainers

On January 13, 1996, nine-year-old Amber Hagerman was riding her bicycle in Arlington, Texas, when an unknown suspect pulled up in a pickup truck, forced her into the vehicle, a...

Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness

Before Amber Alert existed, fast, wide warnings about child abductions were rare and fragmented. In the mid 1990s, a handful of broadcast agencies and law enforcement groups in...