For anyone hearing the term 'Amber Alert' for the first time: > An Amber Alert (or child abduction emergency alert) is a message distributed by a child abducti

For anyone hearing the term 'Amber Alert' for the first time: > An Amber Alert (or child abduction emergency alert) is a message distributed by a child abduction alert system to ask the public for help in finding abducted children. The system originated in the United States. [1] Alerts are distributed via "pagers, faxes, emails, and cell phones with the information immediately posted on the Internet for the general public to view" and have the aim of "ask(ing) the public for help in finding abducted children". A report indicates around 200 Amber Alerts are issued per year in the US: https://www.missingkids.org/content/dam/missingkids/pdfs/amber/2020%20Annual%20AMBER%20Alert%20Report%20and%20Map_FINAL.pdf#page=8 https://www.missingkids.org/content/dam/missingkids/pdfs/amb... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amber_alert https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amber_alert