A new case study from the Center for Digital Government on the collaborative origins of a state-based AMBER Alert Portal will be released at the Council of State Governments’ 2005 Annual Trends and Leadership Forum in Wilmington, Delaware. (…)

Missouri is the latest state to join the Amber Alert Web Portal Consortium to decrease the wait time on Alert distribution and increase the number of eyes looking for an abducted child.

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The public and private sectors are boosting their support for a national network to notify citizens when children are kidnapped. (…)

The system will use a simple broadcast technology that takes the information into a Web portal and reconfigures it for different types of broadcast. (…)

NEW YORK - A new technology debuting in 12 states will significantly extend Amber alerts, reaching cell phones, e-mail and handheld computers, and could also be used to transmit weather and terrorism alerts.”It might not be the all-alert system, but the backbone is going to be there,” said Chris Warner, president of E2C in Scottsdale, Ariz., which led the system’s development. (…)

The Arizona Amber Alert system for child abduction notifications is expanding its distribution system so that people can receive them by e-mail and other high-tech means.Law enforcement agencies already use Arizona Amber Alert to send notifications to broadcast outlets for airing. (…)

The Department of Homeland Security plans to try out updated Amber Alert technology, which is used to help recover abducted children, in a program to improve the U.S. warning system. (…)

E2C, or Engaging and Empowering Citizenship, a Scottsdale-based Web development company, has developed a nationwide Amber Alert Web portal that now is officially endorsed.The National Alliance of State Broadcasters Association voted unanimously to support a nationwide Amber Alert Web portal consortium, and recommends all state broadcasters’ associations promptly join the consortium. (…)