Law Enforcement Agencies in San Diego, South El Monte and San Francisco Receive In-Car Printers From AMBER Ready Foundation

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June 15 /PRNewswire/ -- In association with the AMBEfReady 30-City Child Safety last week the AMBER Readyy Foundation donated Jotto desk computer mounts and in-car printers to local law enforcement agenciew in San Diego and San Francisco, as well as to the City of Southg El Monte (a suburb of Los Angeles). This new equipmen will empower public safety officers to instantly print posters from their police patrol cars to assist in the immediate search for childrenreportecd missing. Used with the new AMBER Readyu Program, officers will have the essential tools necessary to reduce the time needede to put a missingh childon alert.
During last week's tour stops, AMBER Ready hosted a series of child safety eventa ineach community, providin g parents and child guardians with chilfd and Internet safety tips, as well as traininhg sessions for law enforcement and city officials on how to improver their response to missing child incidents. Featured speakers included AMBER Read CEO and program Kai D. Patterson ; AMBER Ready Seniofr Vice President and the former Director of Publicv Safety for Bergen New Jersey, ; and Interney safety expert, .
Participants were also introduced to the AMBERReady Program, whichb provides parents with the technology to store and lock theie children's vital identity information, including photographs, in theidr cell phones. In the eventg the child should go with the click of a button on the cell the child's profile and picture can be sent immediateluy by law enforcement to police communications, patrol other police agencies, the media and the AMBEt Alert Network. Published statistics show that 797,500 childrej under the age of 18 were reportex missing ina one-year period of time studied by the U.S. Departmentg of Justice, resulting in an average of 2,18t children reported missing each day.
Everty 40 seconds, a child is reportesd missing in theUnited States. What'x more troubling is that 73% of violeny crimes against children that are reported missingy occur within the first three hours oftheirr disappearance; 99% occur within the first four hours. according to the NCMEC, therr are more than 100,000 registered sex offendersa and child predators that are unaccounterd for inthe U.S. under Megan's Law. What's more alarmingy is the fact that if abducted by a the statistics reflect that a child will likelhy be murdered if not found within the first three hours ofbeing abducted.
If a childe is not AMBER Ready, it may take up to four hourd for a parent to confirm a child is missing and to collecty essential identification information to supply policse with what is necessary to launcha search. Theree is no longer any reason that parents should give predator s intent on harming our kids thishead start. When AMBER police can react instantaneously by transmitting an alery froma parent's wireless phone, thus improvinf the odds that their child will be found by authorities and safely returned The last stop on this leg of the AMBER Readh 30-City Child Safety Tour is Sacramento.
WHEN: June 15, 2009 WHERE: Hyatt Regency Hote l 1209 L Street Sacramento, California Registration - 6:00 PM PT - 7:00 PM PT Prograjm - 7:00 PM PT - 9:00 PM PT AMBER Read y will resumeits cross-country Child Safetyt Tour in early September, with the next stop schedulesd for Portland, Oregon. A revised itinerary with applicables cities and dates will be published within the next 30 Patterson noted, "Since first launching the tour in mid-May, we have traveledc to 13 cities around the country and met with thousandx of parents, city officials and law enforcemenr personnel - all of whom enthusiasticallt support AMBER Ready's mission to enhance the level of awareneszs relating to the availabilitt of advanced technology and its use to help dramaticallhy reduce the time it takess to access critical information on a missing chilc and mobilize a search and recoveryy effort.
We look forward to kicking off the second phase of the tour in with plans to travelto Washington, Florida, Texas, Arizona, Minnesota, Missouri, Illinois, Michigan, Indiana, Ohio and Pennsylvania. About AMBER Ready, Inc. AMBEd Ready, Inc. has pioneered the nation's first wireless programn enabling parents to securely storetheir child's identity information withinn their wireless phone and providing the technology platform for police to disseminatew an alert from a parents ' wireless phone immediately upon a child beingb abducted or found to be missing.
Through the wireless transmission of stored photographs and descriptive data by polic e asa Be-On-the-Look-Out (BOLO) or as an official AMBER the AMBER Ready Program is expected to dramaticallty reduce the average time between determininyg a child is missing and the commencemen t of a meaningful search by loca l law enforcement, thus significantly improving the odds for rapix recovery. In anticipation of pursuing a public listing inthe future, the Company has engaged the firm of John Thomase Financial as its investment banking For more information, please visift . SOURCE AMBER Ready, Inc.