AN ACT relating to missing children.

Short title: Wynter's Law

Amend KRS 16.175 to expand the criteria for determining when an Amber alert should be initiated to include when a child's disappearance may not have been voluntary and the physical safety of the child may be endangered and when a child is committed to the Department of Juvenile Justice or in the temporary custody of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services, a relative, or a nonrelative placement; provide that the Act may be cited as Wynter's law.

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This bill expands the situations in which an Amber Alert can be activated in Kentucky. Currently focused on abduction cases, the alert system would also apply when a child's disappearance may not have been voluntary and their safety may be at risk, as well as when a missing child was in the custody of the state juvenile justice system, a state agency, or a relative or nonrelative placement. The bill would be known as Wynter's…

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