The Federal Emergency Management Agency is offering help for alerting authorities who want to use the new event code for Missing and Endangered Persons (MEP). Each year, over 180,000 people go missing ...

State Emergency Communications Committees can now start writing their policies and procedures for disseminating EAS and WEA alerts for missing and endangered people. Alerts based on the “Missing and ...

The FCC has unanimously approved a new EAS code aimed at improving the safety of missing and endangered persons, particularly American Indians and Alaska Natives. This new code aims to cover many ...

WASHINGTON — In a unanimous vote Wednesday afternoon, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approved the "Missing and Endangered Persons’ Emergency Alert System Code." "Today we create a new ...

Participants in the Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women and Girls Day of Awareness made a human chain around the Wisconsin State Capitol on Friday, May 5 2023. (Wisconsin Examiner photo) The ...

FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announced plans to introduce a new Missing and Endangered Persons event code in the Emergency Alert System to enhance public alerts for missing individuals who do ...

Native American advocate Loris Taylor gets dozens of social media notifications about missing people every day. After two years of working to get a national alerting system to help bring them home, ...