Check List

ACT IMMEDIATELY if you believe someone is missing.

• If your child is missing from your home, search the house checking closets, laundry piles, in and under beds, inside old refrigerators, ANYPLACE a child may crawl or hide. Check with the neighbors and friends.
• If your child disappears in a store, notify the store manager or security office immediately.
• Contact your local Law Enforcement
• STAY CALM
• Identify yourself and the situation.
• Give the agency all information on the missing person
• Name
• Date of Birth
• Age
• Height
• Weight
• Hair color and style
• Brief description of clothing
• Any other information that will help identify the missing person
• When and where the missing person was last seen.
• LISTEN and RESPOND to the instructions from the law enforcement agency.
• Request the law enforcement agency to enter your missing person into the National Crime Information Center Missing Person file.
• Call the National Center for Missing and Exploited children 1-800-843-5678 or the National Center for Missing Adults 1-800-690-3463.