Have you signed the petition for Billy's Law (The Help Find the Missing Act) yet?
If not, please do so now here ... http://www.change.org/petitions/tell-congress-to-pass-billys-law-to-help-identify-the-missing
OVERVIEW
"Billy's Law" sits in two pieces in Congress: H.R. 1300 and S.R. 702. And that's how our nation's databases sit, disconnected, in the forms of the Department of Justice "NaMUs" database and the FBI's "Missing Persons Database." Pass the Bills into law and you'll connect the databases to help find those who have gone missing and those who are "unidentified" remains.
Billy's Law passed the House last term in 2010, but never left the Senate Judiciary Committee. This legislation was recently reintroduced.
Our goal is to bring the voice of The People to The Hill on behalf of the missing.
We bring this Petition on behalf of our classmate and friend, George DeLany, Jr. He disappeared from Rochester Institute of Technology (NY) on March 12, 2011 and was found on April 17, 2011, sadly, to have died. We had to wait less than 24-hours for DNA testing to confirm that it was George who had been found.
Many families have been waiting for years for news of their loved ones. And many people who have died, have done so without identification and await their final journey home.
Billy's Law is named in honor of Billy Smolinski, Jr., who went missing more than six years ago, and has yet to be found.
Won't you lend your name to this worthy cause? Put the best of the technology that our nation has to offer to work for those who are missing.
Thank you. James, Lelah, D.J., Alex, Amber, Ed, Matt, Ben, Taryn, Michael, Daniel, Jonathan, and Paloma
On Facebook at "Students Finding George DeLany"
Billy's Law passed the House last term in 2010, but never left the Senate Judiciary Committee. This legislation was recently reintroduced.
Our goal is to bring the voice of The People to The Hill on behalf of the missing.
We bring this Petition on behalf of our classmate and friend, George DeLany, Jr. He disappeared from Rochester Institute of Technology (NY) on March 12, 2011 and was found on April 17, 2011, sadly, to have died. We had to wait less than 24-hours for DNA testing to confirm that it was George who had been found.
Many families have been waiting for years for news of their loved ones. And many people who have died, have done so without identification and await their final journey home.
Billy's Law is named in honor of Billy Smolinski, Jr., who went missing more than six years ago, and has yet to be found.
Won't you lend your name to this worthy cause? Put the best of the technology that our nation has to offer to work for those who are missing.
Thank you. James, Lelah, D.J., Alex, Amber, Ed, Matt, Ben, Taryn, Michael, Daniel, Jonathan, and Paloma
On Facebook at "Students Finding George DeLany"
FIND OUT MORE ABOUT BILLY'S LAW AND NAMUS HERE - http://peace4missing.ning.com/forum/categories/namusgov-billys-lawhr-1300/listForCategory
