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Amber Alert

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Am·ber Alert (mbr)
n.
A message that conveys information about a recently missing or abducted person, usually displayed on electronic signs positioned along roadways and broadcast by mass media, intended to enlist the public's help in finding the abducted person and often in catching the abductor.
[After Amber Hagerman (1987-1996), American child kidnapped and murdered in Texas.]


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PALMDALE -- Sheriff's officials issued an Amber Alert on Monday for a 5-month-old baby snatched from her foster mother at McAdam Park.
SEARCH IS LAUNCHED FOR ABDUCTED BABY by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
Toronto -- The Amber Alert system places child welfare agencies in the midst of "conflicting goals", according to Toronto Children's Aid Society Communications Manager Melanie Persaud.
AMBER alert may violate child's privacy, Toronto CAS claims by Community Action
Paradoxically, when Nodaway County (Missouri) Sheriff Ben Espey called in an Amber Alert after finding the body of the baby's mother, it took nine hours for the alert to be issued.
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