Where did the word amber-alert originally come from?

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i head that a girl named amber was abducted a long time ago, but i cant remember the whole story....... could some tell me plz thx!

Answer 1

The AMBER Alert System began in 1996 when Dallas-Fort Worth broadcasters teamed with local police to develop an early warning system to help find abducted children. AMBER stands for America's Missing: Broadcast Emergency Response and was created as a legacy to 9-year-old Amber Hagerman, who was kidnaped while riding her bicycle in Arlington, Texas, and then brutally murdered. Other states and communities soon set up their own AMBER plans as the idea was adopted across the nation.

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Origin Of Amber Alert

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Amber Alert Origin

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The Origin of the Amber Plan
The AMBER Plan was created in 1996 as a powerful legacy to 9-year-old Amber Hagerman, a bright little girl who was kidnapped and brutally murdered while riding her bicycle in Arlington, Texas. The tragedy shocked and outraged the entire community. Residents contacted radio stations in the Dallas area and suggested they broadcast special “alerts” over the airwaves so that they could help prevent such incidents in the future.

In response to the community’s concern for the safety of local children, the Dallas/Fort Worth Association of Radio Managers teamed up with local law-enforcement agencies in northern Texas and developed this innovative early warning system to help find abducted children. Statistics show that, when abducted, a child’s greatest enemy is time.

In April, 2003, President Bush signed the Amber Alert legislation making it a national program. While the Amber Alert system is now mandated across the country, some states are still trying to implement the procedures necessary in bringing the alerts to the public. Hampered by outdated Emergency Broadcast guidelines and different activation criteria in each state, the system needs a fair amount of fine-tuning to be optimally effective. Code Amber is on the cutting edge with the technology helping to make that a reality.

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In January 1996, nine year old Amber Hagerman was riding her bicycle when a neighbor heard the girl scream. The neighbor saw a man pull Amber off her bike, throw her into the front seat of his pickup truck, and drive away at a high speed. The neighbor called police and provided a description of the suspect and his vehicle, but couldn't recall much else. Arlington, TX police and the FBI interviewed other neighbors and searched for the suspect and vehicle. Local radio and TV stations covered the story in their regular newscasts. Four days later, Amber's body was found in a drainage ditch four miles away. Her throat had been cut. Her kidnapping and murder remain unsolved.

A concerned citizen contacted a Dallas, TX radio station suggesting the idea that Dallas radio stations should repeat news bulletins about abducted children just like they do severe weather warnings. The idea was presented to the general managers of the radio stations in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. They agreed that such a program would provide an important public service and might help save the life of a child.

The Dallas Amber Plan was started in July 1997 to help safely recover missing children that police believe have been abducted. Since then, the program has successfully recovered eight children and expanded to other cities and states nationwide.

Although the Amber Plan is named after Amber Hagerman, this national program is dedicated to all children nationwide who've been abducted. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, up to 4600 children are abducted by strangers every year (about 12 children nationwide every day).

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Where did the word amber-alert originally come from?
i head that a girl named amber was abducted a long time ago, but i cant remember the whole story....... could some tell me plz thx!

Answer 7

AMBER is a acronym for "America's Missing: Broadcast Emergency Response" and was named for 9-year-old Amber Hagerman who was abducted and murdered in Arlington,Texas in 1996.
Exceptions are in Georgia, where it is called Levi's Call, and Arkansas,where it is called a Morgan Nick Amber Alert. Those plans were named after children who went missing in those states.

Answer 8

This website gives you the story of what happened to Amber Hagerman and the background to the origin of the Amber Alert

http://www.midohioamberalert.org/origin_Amber.htm

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the amber alert began in 1996 and was created to remember 9-year-old Amber Hagerman, who was kidnaped while riding her bicycle in Arlington, Texas, and then murdered.

Answer 10

In January 1996, nine-year-old Amber Hagerman was riding her bicycle on a warm Saturday afternoon when a neighbor heard the girl scream. The neighbor saw a man pull Amber off her bike at the closed-down Winn Dixie Store on Abrams Street, throw her into the front seat of his pickup truck, and drive away at high speed. The neighbor called Arlington, Texas police, and Amber's brother Ricky went home to tell his mother and grandparents what had happened.

Donna Whitson, Amber's mother, called Amber's father Richard Hagerman at work, who rushed home. Richard Hagerman had seen Marc Klaas, Polly Klaas's father, on TV and contacted him, asking what to do, since Marc Klaas had experienced the same thing when Polly was abducted from her slumber party in California and then murdered by Richard Allen Davis, a convicted sex offender who was on parole.

At that time, Richard and Donna called the news media and the FBI. The Whitsons and their neighbors began searching for Amber. It was a cold winter that year and I (Bruce Seybert) was with a few people searching the Trinity River's bottom just north of Arlington with the others. Amber Hagerman was in Girl Scouts with my daughter, so this hit very close to home. I stopped in and talked with Donna and Richard and the grandparents, and helped deal with the press and news reporters.

During this time, neighbors and citizens of Arlington, Texas and all over the Dallas, Fort Worth Metroplex and Texas started a shrine at the abandoned Winn Dixie store near the loading dock where Amber Hagerman had been abducted. Four days later, a man walking his dog found her body in a storm drainage ditch. At that time, peoples' hearts fell out. The community mourned and questions turned to anger after the autopsy showed 9-year-old Amber Hagerman had been sexually assaulted, then murdered. At this, Donna and Richard Amber's parents started the Organization P.A.S.O., People Against Sex Offenders, Amber Hagerman. We ran P.A.S.O. out of my pickup truck with a camper shell on the back at the shrine at the abandoned Winn Dixie loading dock. We had freezing temperatures and even snow that year! We collected all the signatures we could to take to then-Governor George Bush Jr., for tougher laws to protect the children. During this time, President Bill Clinton and First Lady Hillary Clinton called to express their feelings of sorrow and loss to Donna and Richard. They gave them the phone number to the Chief of Staff, and were assured if they called the President, their call would be returned within 24 hours! During this time, Governor George Bush Jr.'s office contacted us and conveyed that the Governor felt Texas had tough enough laws and all they needed was better enforcement. God's Place International Church then came forward after seeing us on the news working out of my pickup truck, and donated office space for us to use!

After we had an office space for P.A.S.O. things began to grow and happen fast. The newspapers, live news on television and radio featured our cause in the news daily, trying to catch the killer of Amber Hagerman. I became the office manager, handled press releases and was the spokesman for P.A.S.O. We had Laurie, a computer genius, join us. Then AST Computers donated a computer system to P.A.S.O. and Microsoft donated software. Thus, learning how to use a computer began. Internet service was donated, so now knowledge was a click away! Since Governor Bush made it clear he was not going to do anything, we contacted then-Congressman Martin Frost, and, with Marc Klaas' help, we drafted the Amber Hagerman Child Protection act, which was signed into law October 1996 by President Bill Clinton. During this time Marc Klaas and I had talked about what needed to be done when Polly was abducted and what was not done. Thus the idea of the AMBER ALERT™ was born