tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41783769375592024-03-05T05:37:24.064-08:00BILLY'S LAWThe Help Find the Missing ActAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12315837579262893019noreply@blogger.comBlogger51125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4178376937559.post-75656535427905430782011-07-20T14:32:00.001-07:002011-07-20T14:32:23.527-07:00Help Find ALL of America's Missing with Billy's LawBILLY'S LAW - The Help Find the Missing Act (H.R. 1300 and S.R. 702)<br />
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Billy's Law would link two existing databases maintained by the Department of Justice: the FBI’s <a href="http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ncic/ncic">National Crime Information Center (NCIC)</a> and the Department of Justice’s <a href="http://www.namus.gov/">National Missing Person and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)</a>. It would also create a grant program to helps local law enforcement and medical examiners report missing persons and unidentified remains to NCIC, NamUs, and the <a href="http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/lab/codis">National DNA Index System (NDIS)</a>.<br />
<p style="text-align: left;"><img src="http://api.ning.com/files/GhXEz99uPHyLFf06tPdu41VuNGZc3xnD-6w2NW47makWsOu*o4aoDvt5fnHbpnzyRWN*HPUAzO-WM19GFhobGweQP96PZKy6/75640_1723323569476_1429959205_1861948_8222026_n.jpg"/></p><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><a href="http://peace4missing.ning.com/forum/categories/namusgov-billys-lawhr-1300/listForCategory" target="_self"></a> The magnitude of children and adults missing in our country is enormously overwhelming ... if only there were a way to help ALL of them ... YOU CAN DO THAT!!!! Find out how here... <a href="http://peace4missing.ning.com/forum/topics/on-the-road-to-passing-billys">http://peace4missing.ning.com/forum/topics/on-the-road-to-passing-billys</a><br />
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Help ALL the Missing! We're almost there - with your help Billy's Law CAN and WILL pass soon!! <a href="http://peace4missing.ning.com">http://peace4missing.ning.com</a><br />
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Billy's Law By State - House and Senate CoSponsors Needed! <a href="http://peace4missing.ning.com/group/billyslawbystatehouseandsenatecosponsorsneeded">http://peace4missing.ning.com/group/billyslawbystatehouseandsenatecosponsorsneeded</a><br />
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PEACE4 THE MISSING: Voice Platform and Support Network for Families of Missing and Victims of Crime.*Headquarters of NamUs Victim Advocates. *Command Central for the Help Find the Missing Act (Billy's Law)* http://peace4missing.ning.com<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12315837579262893019noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4178376937559.post-81984447446838161572011-05-29T16:16:00.000-07:002011-05-29T16:16:26.954-07:00Everything You Need to Know and DO to HELP PASS BILLY'S LAW<h1><a href="http://peace4missing.ning.com/forum/topics/on-the-road-to-passing-billys">ON THE ROAD TO PASSING BILLY’s LAW (Federal Law) in the 112th Congress! YOUR help is needed!!!</a></h1>Note: This is the Federal Law not the Connecticut State Law! This law benfits the nation!<br />
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<div class="yiv1223297908MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; right: auto;"><b style="right: auto;"><span id="yui_3_2_0_2_1305920257107329" style="font-size: 12pt;">ON THE ROAD TO PASSING BILLY’s LAW in the 112<sup>th</sup> Congress! YOUR help is needed!!!</span></b></div><div class="yiv1223297908MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; right: auto;"><b style="right: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/peace4themissing" target="_blank"><img class="align-left" src="http://api.ning.com/files/hBA8ETI5J9s7udZbjPgdXLQmdZFnDUYZ*jJVWCG12yFZJYQfacFoWth*OEY3T3huEChaOZ2b7CPUTPFHtA0lUb2tZPDMBAJR/SemiMosaicBL.jpg?width=400" width="400" /></a></span></b></div><div class="yiv1223297908MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">On March 31, 2011 Billy’s Law HR 1300 / SR 702 was reintroduced in the House.<span> </span> Orginally introduced in the 111<sup>th</sup> Congress it has now been reintroduced in the 112<sup>th</sup> Congress thus the new bill numbers, <b>HR 1300 / SR 702</b>.<span> </span></span></div><div class="yiv1223297908MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">When one Congress ends it wipes the slate clean so all actions taken before the Congress ended in January 2011 under the 111<sup>th</sup> Congress now need to be redone.<span> </span></span></div><div class="yiv1223297908MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">This includes seeking cosponsorship and signing petitions all had to be restarted when the 111<sup>th</sup> Congress ended.<span> </span></span></div><div class="yiv1223297908MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Much work is needed and needed quickly. We need everyone’s help to be successful from families of the missing, advocates, concerned citizens to the general public.</span></strong></div><div align="center" class="yiv1223297908MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="yiv1223297908MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="color: #993300;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Need Accomplished ASAP <u>all</u> below items:</span></b></span></div><div style="right: auto;"><ol id="yui_3_2_0_2_1305920257107314" type="1"><li class="yiv1223297908MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Write an Impact Letter</span></b> <span style="font-size: 10pt;">to be used for requesting co-sponsorship (see template and example at bottom of this blog.) <br />
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<li class="yiv1223297908MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Write, phone or email your Senators and Congressmen</span></b> <span style="font-size: 10pt;">and ask for their co-sponsorship:</span></li>
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-Click</span> <a href="http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">here</span></a> <span style="font-size: 10pt;">for <b>Senators</b> (</span><a href="http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt;">)<br />
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-Click</span> <a href="http://www.house.gov/representatives/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">here</span></a> <span style="font-size: 10pt;">for <b>Congressmen</b> (</span><a href="http://www.house.gov/representatives/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">http://www.house.gov/representatives/</span></a> <span style="font-size: 10pt;">) (Snail mail-signed in blue ink or phone calls are best.)</span></div><ol id="yui_3_2_0_2_1305920257107316" start="3" style="text-align: left;" type="1"><li class="yiv1223297908MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">POST EVERYWHERE!</span></b> <span style="font-size: 10pt;">Ask your friends, family and basically everyone to contact their Congressmen and Senators and request their co-sponsorship. Post the following links on all websites and social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn status:</span> <a href="http://peace4missing.ning.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">http://peace4missing.ning.com</span></a> <span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></li>
<li class="yiv1223297908MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Sign and Leave Comment on NEW Petition</span></b> <span style="font-size: 9pt;">“</span><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Tell Congress to pass "Billy's Law" to help identify the missing”</span> <a href="http://www.change.org/petitions/tell-congress-to-pass-billys-law-to-help-identify-the-missing" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">http://www.change.org/petitions/tell-congress-to-pass-billys-law-to-help-identify-the-missing</span></a> <span style="font-size: 9pt;"><br />
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<li class="yiv1223297908MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 10pt;">Send out Press Releases to</span></b> <span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 10pt;">your local newstations, newspapers and radio stations educating them on Billy’s Law and inviting the readers/listeners to seek co-sponsors from their Congressmen and Senators.<span> </span></span><b><span class="ms__id1562" style="font-family: 'serif'; font-size: 13pt;"> </span></b></li>
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</div><div class="yiv1223297908MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">On behalf of the entire team here at Peace4 the Missing (Team Billy’s Law), we really appreciate your support and your hard work to make the road smoother for all families of the missing, both present and future.<span> </span> Please contact us if you have any questions.</span></div><div class="yiv1223297908MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></div><div class="yiv1223297908MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span><b><span class="ms__id1565" style="color: black; font-family: 'serif'; font-size: 13pt;"><br clear="all" /></span></b><div class="yiv1223297908MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b><span class="ms__id1567" style="color: black; font-family: 'serif'; font-size: 13pt;">Template for letter to Congress – IMAPCT LETER</span></b></div><div class="yiv1223297908MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span class="ms__id1569" style="color: black; font-family: 'serif'; font-size: 13pt;"> </span></div><div class="yiv1223297908MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span class="ms__id1571" style="color: black; font-family: 'serif'; font-size: 13pt;">[your name]</span></div><div class="yiv1223297908MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span class="ms__id1573" style="color: black; font-family: 'serif'; font-size: 13pt;">[your mailing address]</span></div><div class="yiv1223297908MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span class="ms__id1575" style="color: black; font-family: 'serif'; font-size: 13pt;"> </span></div><div class="yiv1223297908MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span class="ms__id1577" style="color: black; font-family: 'serif'; font-size: 13pt;">[date]</span></div><div class="yiv1223297908MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span class="ms__id1579" style="color: black; font-family: 'serif'; font-size: 13pt;"> </span></div><div class="yiv1223297908MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span class="ms__id1581" style="color: black; font-family: 'serif'; font-size: 13pt;">Re: “Billy’s Law” (H.R. 1300 & S.R. 702)</span></div><div class="yiv1223297908MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span class="ms__id1583" style="color: black; font-family: 'serif'; font-size: 13pt;"> </span></div><div class="yiv1223297908MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span class="ms__id1585" style="color: black; font-family: 'serif'; font-size: 13pt;">To the Members of the 112</span><span class="ms__id1586" style="color: black; font-family: 'serif'; font-size: 8.5pt;">th</span> <span class="ms__id1587" style="color: black; font-family: 'serif'; font-size: 13pt;">Congress:</span></div><div class="yiv1223297908MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span class="ms__id1589" style="color: black; font-family: 'serif'; font-size: 13pt;"> </span></div><div class="yiv1223297908MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span class="ms__id1591" style="color: black; font-family: 'serif'; font-size: 13pt;">[1 – one sentence subject with call to action – <i>why are you writing</i>]</span></div><div class="yiv1223297908MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span class="ms__id1593" style="color: black; font-family: 'serif'; font-size: 13pt;">[2 – the issue]</span></div><div class="yiv1223297908MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span class="ms__id1595" style="color: black; font-family: 'serif'; font-size: 13pt;">[3 – the solution = Billy’s Law]</span></div><div class="yiv1223297908MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span class="ms__id1597" style="color: black; font-family: 'serif'; font-size: 13pt;">[4 – why this issue matters to you]</span></div><div class="yiv1223297908MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span class="ms__id1599" style="color: black; font-family: 'serif'; font-size: 13pt;">[5 – call to action: co-sponsor “Billy’s Law”]</span></div><div class="yiv1223297908MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span class="ms__id1601" style="color: black; font-family: 'serif'; font-size: 13pt;"> </span></div><div class="yiv1223297908MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span class="ms__id1603" style="color: black; font-family: 'serif'; font-size: 13pt;">Respectfully submitted,</span></div><div class="yiv1223297908MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span class="ms__id1605" style="color: black; font-family: 'serif'; font-size: 10pt;">*your signature, in blue ink, goes above your printed name</span></div><div class="yiv1223297908MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span class="ms__id1607" style="font-family: 'serif'; font-size: 13pt;">[print your name]</span><span class="ms__id1608" style="font-family: 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div><div class="yiv1223297908MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></div><div class="yiv1223297908MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b><span> </span></b></div><div class="yiv1223297908MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b><span>EXAMPLE of IMPACT Letter:</span></b></div><div class="yiv1223297908MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">May 18, 2011 <b><span style="color: #c00000;">[INSERT TODAY’s DATE]</span></b></span></div><div class="yiv1223297908MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">To:<span> </span> Members of the 112<sup>th</sup> Congress:<br />
</span><span style="font-size: 9pt;">From:<span> </span> Maureen Reintjes <b><span style="color: red;">[DELETE Maureen’s name and Insert your First and Last Name here.]</span></b> Victims Advocate for the Families of the Missing [Delete Victims Advocate….and Insert your title related to the missing, such as, Family of a Missing Loved One, Concerned Citizen, Law Enforcement, PI, Organization affilliation, etc.]</span></div><div class="yiv1223297908MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Re: <span> </span> H.R. 1300 and S.R. 702, the Help Find the Missing Act (Billy’s Law).</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 9pt;"> </span></div><div class="yiv1223297908MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN" style="color: red; font-size: 9pt;">[Please insert your own personal information here and delete the following bolded text.]</span></b> <b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 9pt;">As a person who had a loved one missing for 4 years and now as the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs) Victims Advocate Team Kansas</span></b> <span lang="EN" style="font-size: 9pt;">I am asking that when this extraordinary legislation comes before you that you make a choice to stand behind the families of the missing by supporting, co-sponsoring and passing the Help Find the Missing Act (Billy's Law).</span></div><div class="yiv1223297908MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 9pt;"> </span></div><div class="yiv1223297908MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 9pt;">There are over 100,000 missing in our great country and anywhere from 40,000 to 60,000 unidentified remains of people all over this country. Sad isn't it that we can't even come up with an accurate count? Those numbers by themselves should get your attention. But have you stopped to think about how many lives are forever changed when a loved one is missing? 1/2 million plus US citizens get up every morning and go to sleep every night living this nightmare, many for decades. If 1/2 million people were suffering from the flu you would sit up and take notice, wouldn't you? It would be an epidemic. These numbers are at an epidemic level that no one in this country is immune to. The government has rushed in and helped far less numbers of citizens in times of national disasters, tornadoes, floods, hurricanes, fires, etc. The missing and the unidentified and the impact on their families and friends is a national disaster. This can happen to anyone's family, anyone.</span></div><div class="yiv1223297908MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 9pt;"> </span></div><div class="yiv1223297908MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 9pt;">Do you know how many people are missing in your state?<span> </span> Do you know where to turn to get ALL those numbers and see those faces? Do you know how many unidentified remains are in your state? Do your fellow state residents know where to get these numbers and view these cases? People missing and unidentified remains are a concern for</span> <span style="color: black; font-size: 9pt;">public safety and homeland security.<span> </span> When you don’t know why a person is missing then they could have been murdered, are being exploited or something criminal happened to them or by them. When a missing person case is not solved or an unidentified person case is not solved then it is highly likely that criminals/murderers/terrorists walk among us unpunished.<span> </span></span> <span lang="EN" style="font-size: 9pt;">Doesn't it make sense to do all you can do to strengthen NamUs so the data is all housed in one clearinghouse, one repository for both the missing and the unidentified remains so that cases can be solved quicker, families given answers quicker and the public protected quicker? Doesn’t it make sense to strengthen NamUs so that Law Enforcement, Coroners, Medical Examiners, the Families of the Missing, the Media and the Public can all have access to one repository to aid in collaboration between all entities of solving these cases? Connect this disconnected system and more families of the missing will get their answers. And, for those families yet to come they will have the hope of a much quicker answer than ever before once Billy’s Law is law. You can make that happen.<span> </span> Please for the families of the missing and for the safety of this country please cosponsor</span> <span style="color: black; font-size: 9pt;">HR 1300 / SR 702, Billy's Law</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 9pt;">.</span></div><div class="yiv1223297908MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 9pt;"> </span></div><div class="yiv1223297908MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 9pt;">Thank you for your time and your service to our country.</span></div><div class="yiv1223297908MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 9pt;"> </span></div><div class="yiv1223297908MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN" style="color: #365f91; font-size: 9pt;">[Your signature in blue ink, here.]</span></b></div><div class="yiv1223297908MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 9pt;"> </span></div><div class="yiv1223297908MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 9pt;"> </span></div><div class="yiv1223297908MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 9pt;">Maureen Reintjes <b><span style="color: #c00000;">[Insert your First and Last Name here, delete Maureen’s name.]</span></b></span></div><div class="yiv1223297908MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN" style="color: #c00000; font-size: 9pt;">[Insert your Street Address – Mandatory for validation.]</span></b></div><div class="yiv1223297908MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN" style="color: #c00000; font-size: 9pt;">[Insert your City, State Zip Code – Mandatory for validation.]</span></b></div><div class="yiv1223297908MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 9pt;"> </span></div><div class="yiv1223297908MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN" style="color: #c00000; font-size: 9pt;">[Insert your phone number – optional.]</span></b></div><div class="yiv1223297908MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN" style="color: #c00000; font-size: 9pt;">[Insert your email address – optional.]</span></b></div><div class="yiv1223297908MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span class="ms__id1666" style="font-family: 'serif'; font-size: 9pt;"> </span></div><div class="yiv1223297908MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.5in; text-align: left;"><ul id="yui_3_2_0_2_1305920257107318" type="disc"><li class="yiv1223297908MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Victim's Advocate Team Kansas <b>NamUs Academy</b> Nov. 2010</span> <span style="color: windowtext;"><a href="http://www.namus.gov/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="color: black; font-size: 9pt;">http://www.namus.gov</span></a></span><span style="font-size: 9pt;"> </span></li>
<li class="yiv1223297908MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Admin: <b>Peace4 the Missing</b>:</span> <span style="color: windowtext;"><a href="http://peace4missing.ning.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="color: black; font-size: 9pt;">http://peace4missing.ning.com</span></a></span></li>
<li class="yiv1223297908MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Fox Valley Technical College <b>Responding to Missing and Unidentified Persons National Training Conference</b> - Scholarship Recipient (Feb 2011):</span> <span style="color: windowtext;"><a href="http://www.fvtc.edu/missing" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="color: black; font-size: 9pt;">http://www.fvtc.edu/missing</span></a></span></li>
<li class="yiv1223297908MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Project Jason</span></b> <span style="font-size: 9pt;">Keys to Healing Retreat Attendee 2009 and 2010</span> <span style="color: windowtext;"><a href="http://www.projectjason.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="color: black; font-size: 9pt;">http://www.projectjason.org</span></a></span></li>
</ul></div><div class="yiv1223297908MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; right: auto;"><span class="ms__id1689" id="yui_3_2_0_2_1305920257107341" style="color: black; font-family: 'serif'; font-size: 9pt;">The bulleted points above are my signature tag line.<span> </span> It helps to show who you are affilated with.<span> </span> For families of the missing you might consider including info such as your missing loved ones name and a link to his/her NamUs file. And, include any valid non profit missing person organizations you are a part of or volunteer for</span><b><span class="ms__id1690" style="color: #c00000; font-family: 'serif'; font-size: 9pt;">.<span> </span> [DELETE the bulleted text and Insert your own info.]</span></b></div><div class="yiv1223297908MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span> </span></div></div><br />
<b><span style="color: black;">Bill Summary & Status 112th Congress (2011 - 2012): H.R.1300 </span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 9pt;">(Check</span> <a href="http://www.thomas.gov/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">http://www.thomas.gov</span></a> <span style="color: black; font-size: 9pt;">and search on the <b><i>bill number</i></b> HR 1300 or SR 702 for current legislative updates.)</span> <div class="yiv1223297908MsoNormal" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 9pt;"> </span></div><div class="yiv1223297908MsoNormal" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 9pt;"> </span></div><div style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 9pt;">H.R.1300</span></b> <span style="color: #333333; font-size: 9pt;">| <b>Latest Title:</b> Billy's Law | <b>Sponsor:</b> Rep Murphy, Christopher S. [CT-5] (introduced 3/31/2011) | Cosponsors : Rep Poe, Ted [TX-2] - 3/31/2011 | <b>Related Bills:</b> S.702 | <b>Latest Major Action:</b> 3/31/2011 Referred to House committee. |</span> <b><span style="color: #00b050; font-size: 9pt;">Status: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.</span></b> <a href="" name="1300e32f5ec67619_summary" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 9pt;"><span> </span><b>SUMMARY AS OF:</b></span></a> <span style="color: #333333; font-size: 9pt;">3/31/2011--Introduced. Billy's Law or the Help Find the Missing Act - Authorizes the Attorney General to maintain public databases, known as the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System or NamUs, to contain missing persons records and unidentified remains cases to assist in identifying missing people and solve cases of unidentified human remains. (Transfers to such System all functions, personnel, assets, liabilities, and administrative actions applicable to the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System carried out by the National Institute of Justice before enactment of this Act.) Directs the Attorney General to: (1) provide for the sharing of information on missing persons and unidentified human remains contained in the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) missing and unidentified person database and the NamUs database; (2) update the online data entry format for such databases to allow states to report information to each database; (3) establish a matching grant program to assist in the reporting of missing persons and unidentified remains information to the NCIC and NamUs databases; (4) issue a report to the offices of medical examiners, offices of coroners, and federal, state, local, and tribal law enforcement agencies describing the best practices for collecting, reporting, and analyzing data and information on missing persons and unidentified human remains; and (5) report to Congress on the status of the NCIC Missing and Unidentified Person File and NamUs databases. Amends the Crime Control Act of 1990 to require reports of missing children (under age 21) to NamUs databases. Allows authorized agencies to remove or override information from the NamUs and NCIC databases if such information is submitted on behalf of a public user and is deemed to be inaccurate. <a href="" name="1300e32f5ec67619_titles" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: #333333;"><b>TITLE(S):</b> (<i>italics indicate a title for a portion of a bill</i>)</span></a>: <b>SHORT TITLE(S) AS INTRODUCED: <span> </span>Billy's Law | Help Find the Missing Act <span> </span>| OFFICIAL TITLE AS INTRODUCED:</b> <span> </span>To authorize funding for, and increase accessibility to, the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System, to facilitate data sharing between such system and the National Crime Information Center database of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, to provide incentive grants to help facilitate reporting to such systems, and for other purposes.</span></div><div style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 9pt;"> </span></div><div style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 9pt;"> </span></div><div style="color: blue;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">PEACE4 THE MISSING:</span> <i style="color: #073763;">Voice Platform and Support Network for Families of Missing and Victims of Crime. *<span class="il">Command</span> <span class="il">Central</span> for the <a href="http://helpfindthemissingact.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Help Find the Missing Act (Billy's Law</a>)*</i> <a href="http://peace4missing.ning.com/">http://peace4missing.ning.com</a></b></div><div style="color: blue;"><b> </b></div><div style="color: blue;"><b> </b></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12315837579262893019noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4178376937559.post-91851911053166400602011-05-24T01:14:00.000-07:002011-05-24T01:14:40.263-07:00Further Strengthen and Utilize NamUs by Supporting Billy's Law NowThanks to all the many supporters helping spread the word about NamUs - legislative efforts are currently underway to further strengthen and utilize the NamUs system through Billy's Law, The Help Find the Missing Act ... <br />
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We finally have the opportunity to somewhat lessen the horror so many families with missing loved ones are forced to endure ... let's not let it pass us by - <br />
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Help Pass Billy's Law today!! http://peace4missing.ning.com/forum/topics/on-the-road-to-passing-billys. - <br />
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Billy's Law online petition - http://www.change.org/petitions/tell-congress-to-pass-billys-law-to-help-identify-the-missingAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4178376937559.post-42969794540603020532011-05-11T19:36:00.000-07:002011-05-13T13:38:04.415-07:00Find Out How To Help Pass Billy's Law (The Help Find the Missing Act) Here!<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Little actions DO make a BIG difference - </b></span><br />
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Have you signed the petition for <a href="http://peace4missing.ning.com/profiles/blogs/petition-for-billys-law">Billy's Law (The Help Find the Missing Act)</a> yet? <br />
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If not, please do so now here ... <a href="http://www.change.org/petitions/tell-congress-to-pass-billys-law-to-help-identify-the-missing">http://www.change.org/petitions/tell-congress-to-pass-billys-law-to-help-identify-the-missing</a><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://peace4missing.ning.com/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="425" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhR9IWSBNCBEOzS2OdZKKTJ5OwPoODqyt-w2HRfj0_mG52j8ynrbhPeJVVUN7tM_ENK_EW0EA5uBSUqDFjxcwNuQswWzpB8toKrc52HZFcLNuOnq5iBNTl7tYCmFrNwlTfgb6c-1EQ/s640/STOP-BILLY%2527SLAW.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br />
<div id="petition-overview"> <h4><a href="http://www.change.org/petitions/tell-congress-to-pass-billys-law-to-help-identify-the-missing">OVERVIEW</a></h4><div class="description" style="display: block;">"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.<br />
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Billy's Law passed the House last term in 2010, but never left the Senate Judiciary Committee. This legislation was recently reintroduced.<br />
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Our goal is to bring the voice of The People to The Hill on behalf of the missing.<br />
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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. <br />
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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.<br />
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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.<br />
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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.<br />
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Thank you. James, Lelah, D.J., Alex, Amber, Ed, Matt, Ben, Taryn, Michael, Daniel, Jonathan, and Paloma<br />
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On Facebook at "Students Finding George DeLany"<br />
</div><div class="read-more"> <a href="http://www.change.org/petitions/tell-congress-to-pass-billys-law-to-help-identify-the-missing" id="read-more">[Read Less]</a></div><div class="read-more"> </div></div><div class="read-petition-letter-wrapper"> <a class="read-petition-letter" href="javascript:void(0)" style="display: inline;">Read Petition Letter</a></div><div class="read-petition-letter-wrapper"> </div><div class="read-petition-letter-wrapper"> </div><div class="read-petition-letter-wrapper"><b style="color: #990000;">FIND OUT MORE ABOUT BILLY'S LAW AND NAMUS HERE - <a href="http://peace4missing.ning.com/forum/categories/namusgov-billys-lawhr-1300/listForCategory">http://peace4missing.ning.com/forum/categories/namusgov-billys-lawhr-1300/listForCategory</a></b></div><div class="read-petition-letter-wrapper"><b style="color: #990000;"> </b></div><div class="read-petition-letter-wrapper"><b style="color: #990000;"> </b> </div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12315837579262893019noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4178376937559.post-6809006144370314042011-05-10T17:17:00.000-07:002011-05-10T17:17:51.252-07:00Billy's Law at Michigan's Missing Persons Day<a href="http://peace4missing.ning.com/forum/topics/what-i-walked-away-from">What I walked away from Michigan's (very first) Missing Persons Day with</a><br />
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This past Saturday, May 7th, 2011, I (<a href="http://peace4missing.ning.com/profile/Sara">Sara Huizenga</a>) on behalf of <a href="http://peace4missing.ning.com/">Peace4 the Missing</a> and <a href="http://helpfindthemissingact.blogspot.com/">Billy's Law </a>attended and held an information booth at <a href="http://michiganmissing.blogspot.com/">Michigan's (VERY FIRST) Missing Persons Day</a>.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://peace4missing.ning.com/forum/categories/namusgov-billys-lawhr-1300/listForCategory" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="425" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-64DX1025ry5lni7Djoa70NAjd434GillbB21H5lTnahv0MM9ZJkNCuEpcj88m5_ut0q-guQSclw7TMpnlyxUwSFq9-f344Ejcdt8ZYJ64uHYRBaYpJXXl37-VRVnxwTyVS6JwG8/s640/BL+Poster+small.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br />
It was a day of many mixed emotions - which I guess ironically makes sense at any missing persons event in general. <br />
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Perhaps I can help you gain a bit of perspective on what I mean by my typed sentence directly above here by sharing some of the days comments from <a href="http://peace4missing.ning.com/">Families of Missing Loved Ones</a> below ....<br />
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</div><div style="color: #cc0000;"><i>We just don't know what to do.</i></div><div style="color: #cc0000;"><i><br />
</i></div><div style="color: #cc0000;"><i>One minute we think it might be okay, but the next moment we're not even sure we can even make it through to seeing the next second, it hurts so bad.</i></div><div style="color: #cc0000;"><i><br />
</i></div><div style="color: #cc0000;"><i>I can't believe I've endured having a missing loved one this long, I never thought I'd be able to last as long as I have.</i></div><div style="color: #cc0000;"><i><br />
</i></div><div style="color: #cc0000;"><i>Thank you for displaying their picture (NamUs Missing Person Poster) - you have no idea as to how much that means to us - it is everything!</i></div><div style="color: #cc0000;"><i><br />
</i></div><div style="color: #cc0000;"><i>People who give us hope help us go on, we couldn't do it without them and the hope they offer.</i></div><div style="color: #cc0000;"><i><br />
</i></div><div style="color: #cc0000;"><i>I will never give up on them - I'll never stop looking.</i></div><div style="color: #cc0000;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #cc0000;"><i>You have no idea how much this day means to us, we've traveled from (insert many States even COUNTRIES away) just to be here ... wouldn't have missed it for the world. </i></div><div style="color: #cc0000;"><i><br />
</i></div><div style="color: #cc0000;"><i><a href="http://namus.gov/">NamUs</a> has finally given us some hope back! We thought we'd lost it all for good shortly before finding out about it ... We MUST pass <a href="http://helpfindthemissingact.blogspot.com/">Billy's Law</a> and <a href="http://peace4missing.ning.com/forum/categories/namusgov-billys-lawhr-1300/listForCategory">make it stronger!</a></i></div><div style="color: #cc0000;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #cc0000;">I walked away from this event even more convinced of two things in particular ...</div><br />
1. I painfully have no magic words to take away this intensely horrific of a pain that families of the missing are forced to endure - every second of every day.<br />
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2. Procedures, legislation and action such as <a href="http://namus.gov/">NamUs</a>, <a href="http://peace4missing.ning.com/forum/categories/namusgov-billys-lawhr-1300/listForCategory">Billy's Law</a>, <a href="http://www.myfoxdetroit.com/dpp/mornings/weekend/missing-in-michigan-event-20110507-rs">Resourceful Law Enforcement</a>, <a href="http://www.gregsmithforkansas.com/about">Kelsey's Law</a>, etc. are SO NEEDED - and so worth fighting for ... we must work together to ensure these full of hope for the missing things.<br />
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Here's how ... <span class="font-size-6"><b><a href="http://peace4missing.ning.com/forum/topics/important-message-billys-law">CLICK TO HELP CREATE MUCH NEEDED CHANGE</a></b></span> ... let's get going on <strong><span class="font-size-6"><a href="http://www.change.org/petitions/tell-congress-to-pass-billys-law-to-help-find-the-missing-2" target="_blank">here and now</a></span></strong>.<br />
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<div style="color: blue;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">PEACE4 THE MISSING:</span> <i style="color: #073763;">Voice Platform and Support Network for Families of Missing and Victims of Crime. *<span class="il">Command</span> <span class="il">Central</span> for the Help Find the Missing Act (Billy's Law)*</i> <a href="http://peace4missing.ning.com/">http://peace4missing.ning.com</a></b></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12315837579262893019noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4178376937559.post-36348254562300607542011-05-10T14:03:00.000-07:002011-05-10T14:03:46.042-07:00Billy's Law Images - Please Use and Share<embed allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" bgcolor="#" class="xg_slideshow xj_photo_embed" flashvars="feed_url=http%3A%2F%2Fpeace4missing.ning.com%2Fphoto%2Fphoto%2FslideshowFeedAlbum%3Fid%3D2153128%253AAlbum%253A146990%26mtime%3D1305056438%26x%3Dgl02wgYOxVXPIHYzDwISk42VDAnuqFxy&autoplay=1&hideShareLink=1&config_url=http%3A%2F%2Fpeace4missing.ning.com%2Fphoto%2Fphoto%2FshowPlayerConfig%3Fx%3Dgl02wgYOxVXPIHYzDwISk42VDAnuqFxy%26xn_auth%3Dno%26feed_url%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fpeace4missing.ning.com%252Fphoto%252Fphoto%252FslideshowFeedAlbum%253Fid%253D2153128%25253AAlbum%25253A146990%2526mtime%253D1305056438%2526x%253Dgl02wgYOxVXPIHYzDwISk42VDAnuqFxy%26version%3DDEP-6551%253Af9f7612_365_365_68%26theme982Version%3D60&slideshow_title=&fullsize_url=http%3A%2F%2Fpeace4missing.ning.com%2Fphoto%2Fphoto%2Fslideshow%3Ffeed_url%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fpeace4missing.ning.com%252Fphoto%252Fphoto%252FslideshowFeedAlbum%253Fid%253D2153128%25253AAlbum%25253A146990%2526mtime%253D1305056438" height="394" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" quality="high" scale="noscale" src="http://static.ning.com/socialnetworkmain/widgets/photo/slideshowplayer/slideshowplayer.swf?v=201105061959" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="500" wmode="opaque"></embed> <br />
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<b><a href="http://peace4missing.ning.com/">http://peace4missing.ning.com</a></b>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12315837579262893019noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4178376937559.post-2990204508393333112011-05-10T13:02:00.000-07:002011-05-10T13:02:54.896-07:00Important Message Billy's Law HR 1300: Co-Sponsors Needed in House and Senate<span class="font-size-5"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://draft.blogger.com/goog_1527199718">BILLY'S LAW</a></b></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://peace4missing.ning.com/forum/topics/important-message-billys-law"><span class="font-size-4"></span> <span class="font-size-4">- HR 1300 & SR 702</span></a></b></span><br />
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<span class="font-size-4"><span class="font-size-1">On March 2011 Billy's Law was introduced into the House Of Representatives as most of you know the law was hung up in the Senate last year. All Bills have to be introduced again if not passed by the end of the year and this is where we are at now. What this means is we are back to square one and the Bill has to go through the same political process as last year meaning we need <span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">Cosponsors. There is a change this time on how we are going to handle getting cosponsors which will be explained.</span></span></span><br />
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<span class="font-size-4"><span class="font-size-1"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">If you look at the top of the page you will see <span style="font-family: arial black,avant garde;">HR 1300 & SR 702, <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">t</span><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">his is the change I was talking about HR 1300 is the Bill number in the House of Representatives and SR 702 is the Bill number in the US Senate <span style="font-family: arial black,avant garde;">We will be getting cosponsor from both at the same time.</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span class="font-size-4"><span class="font-size-1"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-family: arial black,avant garde;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-family: arial black,avant garde;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">Listed below I will give links on how to find and write to your Congressman in the House of Rep and your US Senators ( remember 2 Senators per state ).</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span class="font-size-4"><span class="font-size-1"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-family: arial black,avant garde;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-family: arial black,avant garde;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">First of all a very special Thank you to Congressman <span style="font-family: arial black,avant garde;">Chris Murphy</span> and <span style="font-family: arial black,avant garde;">Ted Poe</span> for sponsoring this Bill and once again making it bipartisan.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span class="font-size-4"><span class="font-size-1"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-family: arial black,avant garde;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-family: arial black,avant garde;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-family: arial black,avant garde;">This is the link to find your Congressman</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> <a href="https://writerep.house.gov/writerep/welcome.shtml">https://writerep.house.gov/writerep/welcome.shtml</a><br />
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<div style="background-color: white; color: #990000;"><b><i><span style="font-family: arial black,avant garde;">NOTE: <span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">Remember to write your Congressman and Senators even if they Cosponsored this Bill last year.</span></span></i></b></div><br />
Now on the <span style="font-family: arial black,avant garde;">Senate</span> side <span style="font-family: arial black,avant garde;">Ct. Senator Joe Lieberman</span> and <span style="font-family: arial black,avant garde;">Ct. Senator Richard Blumenthal</span> will also be sponsoring this Bill.<br />
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<span style="font-family: arial black,avant garde;">This is the Link to U.S. Senators </span><a href="http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm">http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial black,avant garde;">We all know how important this Bill is these letters and emails MUST be written this Bill will pick up momentum and once it does we have to be ready with our voices even stronger then before. If you are a family with a missing loved one please share your story in your letters.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial black,avant garde;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"> This is the first post on are call to action I'm sure there will be many more before we are done if there are any questions please feel free to ask and we will get back with answers asap. Also as before when Congressman and Senators cosponsor this Bill they will be listed.</span></span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: arial black,avant garde;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-family: arial black,avant garde;">Here also is a link to a petition for Billy's Law </span></span></span><a href="http://www.change.org/petitions/tell-congress-to-pass-billys-law-to-help-identify-the-missing">http://www.change.org/petitions/tell-congress-to-pass-billys-law-to...</a> <br />
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<span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: arial black,avant garde;">This Bill will become law but there is a lot of work to do so let's do it.</span><br />
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<div style="color: blue;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">PEACE4 THE MISSING:</span> <i style="color: #073763;">Voice Platform and Support Network for Families of Missing and Victims of Crime. *<span class="il">Command</span> <span class="il">Central</span> for the Help Find the Missing Act (Billy's Law)*</i> <a href="http://peace4missing.ning.com/">http://peace4missing.ning.com</a></b></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12315837579262893019noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4178376937559.post-63800793872740740702011-05-10T10:29:00.000-07:002011-05-10T14:07:17.409-07:00Discussion Forum - NamUs.Gov/Billy's Law<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8f8r11eoXfQhfOySj1_NXSy1_23mWi2auqb3nDsksOU611IFo-zuRkeYbMh5yYxIDzbTRcc5jfpnbdoJJvhzhatO2FNCPWG7_83nF9oX0jO9Adh5tvfLs1uykURfFW71tFTlwwV8/s1600-h/th_peace_46fcd9566ec1d.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8f8r11eoXfQhfOySj1_NXSy1_23mWi2auqb3nDsksOU611IFo-zuRkeYbMh5yYxIDzbTRcc5jfpnbdoJJvhzhatO2FNCPWG7_83nF9oX0jO9Adh5tvfLs1uykURfFW71tFTlwwV8/s400/th_peace_46fcd9566ec1d.jpg" /></a></div><br />
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<a href="http://peace4missing.ning.com/forum/categories/namusgov-billys-lawhr-3695/listForCategory">http://peace4missing.ning.com/forum/categories/namusgov-billys-lawhr-1300/listForCategory</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12315837579262893019noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4178376937559.post-18934323084469189752011-05-05T19:37:00.000-07:002011-05-05T19:37:57.006-07:00Petition Congress to Pass "Billy's Law" to Help Find The Missing<div class="petition-title-wrapper"> <h1 class="petition-title"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.change.org/petitions/tell-congress-to-pass-billys-law-to-help-find-the-missing-2">SIGN THIS PETITION</a></span></h1><div class="subject"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://helpfindthemissingact.blogspot.com/">Billy's Law (H.R. 1300 & S.R. 702)</a></span></div></div><div id="left-column" style="position: relative; right: -10px; top: 0px;"><h3 class="arrow-header"><a _mce_href="http://www.change.org/petitions/tell-congress-to-pass-billys-law-to-help-find-the-missing-2" href="http://www.change.org/petitions/tell-congress-to-pass-billys-law-to-help-find-the-missing-2" target="_blank"></a><div class="arrow-header-icon"></div></h3></div><div class="top-level-petition-content"> <div class="media"> <img class="photo" src="http://change-production.s3.amazonaws.com/photos/5/mu/ud/qfMuUDRvLYpGlNP-250.jpg?1304559236" /> </div><div class="petition-deets"><div class="petition-deets-list"><div class="signatures"> <br />
<div class="thermometer"> <div class="container"> </div></div></div><div class="petitioning"> <h4 class="title">PETITIONING</h4><div class="first-target"> <div class="target"><span class="primary">The President of the United States</span></div></div><a class="more-targets" href="">+ 2 others</a> </div><div class="started-by"> <h4>STARTED BY</h4><div class="creator-image"> <img src="http://change-production.s3.amazonaws.com/photos/5/gc/aw/SfGCAwUgPDeAwcl-50x50-cropped.jpg?1304559634" width="30" /> </div><div class="started-by-name"> <a href="http://www.change.org/members/3172718">Paloma Capanna</a> <div class="location">Penfield, NY</div></div></div></div></div></div><div id="petition-overview"> <h4> </h4><h4>OVERVIEW</h4><div class="description"> "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.<br />
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Billy's Law passed the House last term in 2010, but never left the Senate Judiciary Committee. This legislation was recently reintroduced.<br />
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Our goal is to bring the voice of The People to The Hill on behalf of the missing.<br />
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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. <br />
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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.<br />
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Billy's Law is named in honor of Billy Smolinski, Jr., who went missing five years ago, and has yet to be found.<br />
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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.<br />
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Thank you. James, Lelah, D.J., Alex, Amber, Ed, Matt, Ben, Taryn, Michael, Daniel, Jonathan, and Paloma<br />
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</div></div><div id="petition-letter" style="display: block;"> <h4>PETITION LETTER</h4><div class="petition-letter-content"> <div class="subject">Billy's Law (H.R. 1300 & S.R. 702)</div><div class="subject"><br />
</div><div class="salutation"><i>Greetings,</i></div><div class="salutation"><br />
</div><i> </i><div class="content"><i>This letter is a call to action to the House, Senate, and President to enact "Billy's Law" (H.R. 1300 & S.R. 702). <br />
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The Bureau of Justice Statistics estimated in 2007 that more than 40,000 human remains were unidentified and being held in Coroner's Offices nationwide. This amounts to a national tragedy for the missing, their families, and friends. </i> <i><br />
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All available technology should be brought together to assist in the search for the missing, including the Department of Justice "NaMUs" database and the FBI's NCIC database. </i> <i><br />
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Please take action today to advance, sign, and implement this important legislation.</i> </div><div class="signature"><i>[Your name]</i></div><div class="signature"><br />
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</div><div class="signature">Please click on the following link now to sign and support this urgent and most vital petition ... <a href="http://www.change.org/petitions/tell-congress-to-pass-billys-law-to-help-find-the-missing-2">http://www.change.org/petitions/tell-congress-to-pass-billys-law-to-help-find-the-missing-2</a></div><div class="signature"><br />
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<h1 class="entry-title"><span class="font-size-5" style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.wkbw.com/home/Schumer-Announces-Support-For-Billys-Law-120638134.html" target="_blank">Schumer Announces Support For "Billy's Law"</a></span></h1><span class="vcard author"></span><span class="vcard author">By WKBW News<span class="contact-info">,</span> <span class="date">April 25, 2011</span> <span class="moddate">Updated Apr 25, 2011 at 2:57 PM EDT</span></span> <span class="vcard author"> </span><br />
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</span></div><div class="storybody">WASHINGTON, DC (release) Monday, United States Senator Charles E. Schumer announced his support for legislation called <a href="http://helpfindthemissingact.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">"Billy's Law," also known as Help Find the Missing Act</a>, to close loopholes in our <a href="http://namus.gov/" target="_blank">national missing persons systems</a>.<br />
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Schumer has sponsored this legislation in the past, and his co-sponsorship this Congress comes in the wake of the recent death of George Delaney, a Rochester Institute of Technology student. When George Delany went missing on March 12th, RIT faculty and students joined with law enforcement and the community to search for him. <a href="http://www.eveningtribune.com/features/x1798440022/Rochester-Institute-of-Technology-students-faculty-remember-DeLany">http://www.eveningtribune.com/features/x1798440022/Rochester-Instit...</a><br />
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<b>This week they wrote to Senator Schumer in support of Billy’s Law, after experiencing firsthand the gaps in our national missing person response system. Schumer states that the enactment of Billy’s Law will provide law enforcement officials with the tools and resources it needs to better conduct the search for missing adults.</b><br />
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</b></div><div class="storybody">“George Delany’s death is a tragedy for Rochester and all of New York,” said Schumer. “And, what is even more difficult to believe are the loopholes in our national missing persons system. Just as we provide law enforcement with tools like the Amber alert and access to missing person databases when children are missing, we should not tolerate delays and lapses in information when people over the age of 18, like George Delany, are missing. Billy’s Law would provide the critical tools and alerts to law enforcement officials that are essential in the search of missing adults. What’s more, Billy’s Law seeks to bring our national missing persons databases into the 21st century, creating a central resource for officials and families that are so desperately trying to locate their loved ones.”<br />
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<b>RIT professor Paloma Capanna, along with a dozen RIT students who were personally involved in the search for George wrote to Senator Schumer in support of this legislation stating, “Our support for this [legislation] comes from our personal experience with our classmate and friend, George Delany. At least two college students go missing every week. And, nationwide, more than 20,000 persons are reported missing each year. The federal government should intervene to ensure that any barriers to participation in and access to all available databases are eliminated, including supplements for any fees that may be prohibitive within county budgets.”</b><br />
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Billy’s Law would authorize the National Missing Persons and Unidentified Persons System (<b><a href="http://namus.gov/">NamUs</a></b>), which was created in July 2007 by the Department of Justice (DOJ), to provide a missing persons/unidentified database that the public could access and contribute to. The law would connect NamUs with the FBI’s National Crime Information Center (NCIC) in order to create more comprehensive missing persons and unidentified remains databases and streamlining the reporting process for local law enforcement. Billy’s Law would expand current law by requiring missing children be reported to NamUs in addition to NCIC, and would create a grant program to help states, local law enforcement and medical examiners report missing persons and unidentified remains to NCIC, NamUs, and the National DNA Index System (NDIS). And, finally Billy’s Law requires the DOJ issue guidelines and best practices on handling missing persons and unidentified remains cases in order to empower law enforcement, medical examiners and coroners to help find the missing.<br />
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Billy’s Law is named after <a href="http://justice4billy.com/"><b>Billy Smolinski</b></a> of Waterbury, Connecticut who went missing on August 24, 2004 at the age of 31. Billy’s family quickly learned that while federal law mandates law enforcement report missing children, there are no such requirements for adults – or unidentified bodies. Compounding this problem is the fact that local law enforcement agencies, medical examiners, and coroners, often don’t have the resources or training to voluntarily report these cases. Finally, even when missing adults and remains are reported, the wide-range of unconnected federal, state, local, and non-profit databases to help match the missing with unidentified bodies, makes finding a match an often insurmountable challenge.<br />
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Continue reading: <a href="http://www.wkbw.com/home/Schumer-Announces-Support-For-Billys-Law-120638134.html">http://www.wkbw.com/home/Schumer-Announces-Support-For-Billys-Law-1...</a></div></div><br />
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“Strangers are praying — come home.”<br />
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Those pleas are just three of hundreds written on a banner for George DeLany, the previously missing <b><a href="http://www.rit.edu/">Rochester Institute of Technology</a></b> student whose remains were discovered Sunday night in a shallow indentation near the Wayland-Cohocton town line.<br />
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DeLany was last seen March 12, the day before his car was found in the Town of Wayland. State police in vain led massive search efforts, but it was a landowner who found DeLany in a previously unsearched area, two-to-three miles from the missing student’s vehicle.<br />
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Tuesday evening a crowd of approximately 75 gathered at the Schmitt Interfaith Center for a memorial service on the R.I.T. campus to remember their friend, classmate, and student.<br />
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“For those of you that knew George, I’m awfully sorry for your loss. For those of you that didn’t know George, I’m sorry for your loss, that you didn’t have a chance to get to know him,” said Mary-Beth Cooper, senior vice president for Student Affairs at R.I.T.<br />
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Adjunct faculty member Paloma Capanna, who was active in the “Students Finding George DeLany” organization publicizing his disappearance, read a letter from the DeLany family. The family wasn’t in attendance.<br />
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The letter summed up DeLany as a “nice person” who wanted to be known as a “tough guy,” despite it being against his nature.<br />
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“We are all a bit shy, and George inherited that trait,” said the letter. “That was tough to deal with as he grew older. Once he became involved with people, he could open up, and show the young man we loved so much.”<br />
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Much of the conversation at the memorial service centered on the community that developed during DeLany’s disappearance.<br />
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“Over the past month, our group (<b><a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Students-Finding-George-DeLany/208997139116203?sk=wall">Students Finding George DeLany</a></b>), with everyone here and in the community, has experienced something special, and that’s because of George,” said R.I.T. student James Brigden. “Not only has he built a sense of community that people work forever to try to build, he’s built it strong ... People work a lifetime to try to build a sense of community, and George did it in a very small amount of time.”<br />
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R.I.T. President Bill Destler, speaking before Brigden, also emphasized the community that had developed, and needed to continue.<br />
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“I hope all of us will dedicate ourselves to that basic idea, that we are all a family. Those of us that need help, need to know that we can help them,” said Destler. “We don’t know, we may never know, exactly what happened to George. But I think we do know that we have a responsibility to try to minimize these kinds of tragedies.<br />
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“If I’m proud of anything, I’m proud of the fact that this community kept its vigil going, both in person here on campus and on social networks ... I’m proud we didn’t give up hope until the very last.”<br />
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<b>The discovery of DeLany’s remains would seem to bring closure, but Capanna and Brigden said they wouldn’t step back from the incident that has enveloped them in the past month. <a href="http://www.beyondthecliches.com/bio.php">Capanna </a>said she and the students will lobby to get <a href="http://peace4missing.ning.com/forum/categories/namusgov-billys-lawhr-1300/listForCategory">Billy’s Law</a>, legislation previously rejected by the Senate Judiciary Committee, back to the Senate.</b><br />
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<b>The law would create <a href="http://namus.gov/">stronger sharing of information between missing persons databases and provide grants to municipalities and states to share information</a>, according to an article from the Los Angeles Times.</b><br />
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Some of the details of the case — such as why DeLany was in Wayland, or the official cause of death — aren’t known. To Brigden, whatever details still unknown are irrelevant.<br />
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“We’re at the point where we have an answer for George’s family. The details we don’t know, and there aren’t many, aren’t as important to the students,” he said.<br />
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Others, though, such as sophomore D.J. Abele, are still curious as to what happened to their classmate.<br />
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“I’m torn. Part of me wants to know what happened. I don’t want more horrible news. I don’t,” he said.<br />
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Source: <a href="http://www.eveningtribune.com/features/x1798440022/Rochester-Institute-of-Technology-students-faculty-remember-DeLany">http://www.eveningtribune.com/features/x1798440022/Rochester-Institute-of-Technology-students-faculty-remember-DeLany </a><br />
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The following was written by Billy's Mother, Jan Smolinski ... <a href="http://peace4missing.ning.com/profiles/blogs/your-voice-counts-for-missing/edit">http://peace4missing.ning.com/profiles/blogs/your-voice-counts-for-missing/edit</a><br />
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If anyone has watched the journey our family has taken to try and find a real person, disappeared, ignored by the authorities as a walk away, hurtful remarks made, evidence lost, entries wrong and incomplete, six years later and still the enormous up hill push just to bring my son home.<br />
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Please Help Find Our Missing Loved Ones<br />
We are just a small example of the thousands of families who have to face the reality of a similar nightmare/silent crisis that faces our nation today.<br />
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Education is the key~~there is a centralized database that will help connect the dots possibly make matches or bring a loved one home called NamUs.<br />
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Imagine a person you love so dearly, a child perhaps (no matter the age they are always your child) go missing with very little attention ~ to then finally receive HOPE ... who would not stand up and say WAIT this is what we have been waiting for! ?? Perhaps a solution?<br />
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In our state of Connecticut, like most states, Billy has been missing for six years, but yet the state police ~ public safety ~ have not and will not put Billy as a missing person on their database because they say he is not their case. We questioned and were told Billy's case belongs in the lead agency database, ok, but the computers don't connect, so it will not work.<br />
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Our country is in desperate need of a new system, the disjointed, confusing process and tools currently available prior to the creation of NamUs were not working! And unfortunately, until more agencies are required to utilize NamUs (part of what Billy's Law would initiate) this broken, ineffective method will continue.<br />
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Now for the first time ever a centralized database is available and incentives are needed to help train law enforcement and medical examiners/coroners how to enter the information and take DNA samples, put into the proper databases, results that are much needed, a resolution for the family of a missing loved one may be possible, it is proven to have worked already.<br />
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A missing person DOES NOT have to be deceased for this to work.<br />
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Check your local or state clearinghouses, look at the disaster of information entered ... see for yourself the tangled web of missing pieces, entries here there and everywhere and dead ends ... it doesn't make sense.<br />
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You decide ... is this the kind of system you'd want to put the majority of your hopes for finding your missing loved one into??<br />
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If you say I don't have to worry about this it won't happen to my family, think again ~ NO ONE IS EXEMPT!!<br />
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It is time to wake up!<br />
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It is time to get the ball rolling and support the best database to date.<br />
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If law enforcement is here to serve and protect then lets educate them how to help serve and protect. It is not their fault if they are not trained, incentives are needed to help in the process.<br />
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It is 2010, this is why we in this country need S3019 ~ Help Find the Missing Act ~ Billy's Law.<br />
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Billy's Law (The Help Find the Missing Act) is a proposed bill that was created in order to strengthen and increase utilization of our National Missing Persons Database (NamUs.Gov)<br />
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More info can be found on PEACE4 THE MISSING<br />
Voice Platform and Support Network for Families of Missing and Victims of Crime<br />
<a href="http://peace4missing.ning.com/">http://peace4missing.ning.com/</a><br />
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Peace4 Page on Facebook ... <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Peace4-the-Missing/114101641947">http://www.facebook.com/pages/Peace4-the-Missing/114101641947</a><br />
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NamUs.gov<br />
<a href="http://namus.gov/">http://namus.gov/</a><br />
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Billy's Law<br />
<a href="http://helpfindthemissingact.blogspot.com/">http://helpfindthemissingact.blogspot.com/</a><br />
<a href="http://justice4billy.com/">http://justice4billy.com/</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12315837579262893019noreply@blogger.comUnited States37.829742989563265 -97.031254.0880794895632633 -156.796875 71.571406489563259 -37.265625tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4178376937559.post-71899136767191053312011-01-04T11:22:00.000-08:002011-01-04T11:23:22.574-08:00THIS is the story of Billy (Billy's Law) SmolinskiWatch the <a href="http://peace4missing.ning.com/forum/topics/watch-the-full-investigation">ENTIRE EPISODE</a> of Billy Smolinski's missing persons case story that was featured as an episode on Investigation Discovery right here ... <br />
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<div class="description"></div><div class="description">Billy is the Missing Son of our Peace4, Jan Smolinski - Jan created Billy's Law - the act to HELP FIND THE MISSING ... to help protect other families from ever having to endure many of the unnecessary, horror their family endured while seeking for their missing son.<a href="http://helpfindthemissingact.blogspot.com/"></a></div><div class="description"><a href="http://helpfindthemissingact.blogspot.com/">http://helpfindthemissingact.blogspot.com</a><br />
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This is not a closed case - the Smolinski family is still actively seeking justice for Billy ... do you know something? Can you help spread the word? <a href="http://justice4billy.com/">http://justice4billy.com</a><br />
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Peace4 the Missing<br />
<a href="http://draft.blogger.com/">http://peace4missing.ning.com</a></div><div class="description"><br />
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</div><div class="description"></div><div class="description"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.findthemissing.org/cases/43/0/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img class="align-full" height="640" src="http://api.ning.com/files/0f1KBp2XFviACgMix1gZ2CMVr9NiSNexIXK0Q7vU2U2NmDuU2wt-IQOttEx9kzH4/smolinski.jpg" width="492" /></a></div>Click on image above to go to the NamUs.gov profile of William 'Billy' Smolinski ...</div><div class="description"><br />
Billy Smolinski on Investigation Discovery, part 1/4<br />
<a href="http://draft.blogger.com/video/billy-smolinski-on">http://peace4missing.ning.com/video/billy-smolinski-on</a><br />
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Billy Smolinski on Investigation Discovery, part 2/4<br />
<a href="http://draft.blogger.com/video/billy-smolinski-on-1">http://peace4missing.ning.com/video/billy-smolinski-on-1</a><br />
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Billy Smolinski on Investigation Discovery, part 3/4<br />
<a href="http://draft.blogger.com/video/billy-smolinski-on-2">http://peace4missing.ning.com/video/billy-smolinski-on-2</a><br />
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Billy Smolinski on Investigation Discovery, part 4/4<br />
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</div>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4178376937559.post-82873068681732197212010-12-08T11:48:00.000-08:002010-12-08T11:48:07.182-08:00THANK YOU, Senator Joseph Lieberman, for having a HEART for the Missing!<h1 style="margin: 0px; padding: 0.4em 0px; border-width: 0px; outline-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 52, 90); font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif; line-height: 1.4em; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(70, 70, 70); font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 11px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">THANK YOU,</span> <a href="http://lieberman.senate.gov/index.cfm/news-events/news/2010/2/lieberman-introduces-bill-to-assist-families-of-missing-adults"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Senator Joseph Lieberman</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">, for having a HEART for the Missing ... From</span> <a href="http://peace4missing.ning.com"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Peace4</span></a> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">the Missing's Families of <a href="http://justice4billy.com">Missing</a> Loved Ones ...</span></span></h1><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(70, 70, 70); font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 11px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></span></div><h1 style="margin: 0px; padding: 0.4em 0px; border-width: 0px; outline-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 52, 90); font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif; line-height: 1.4em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(70, 70, 70); font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 11px;"><a href="http://lieberman.senate.gov/index.cfm/news-events/news/2010/2/lieberman-introduces-bill-to-assist-families-of-missing-adults"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">LIEBERMAN INTRODUCES BILL TO ASSIST FAMILIES OF MISSING ADULTS</span></a></span></h1><div class="divider" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; outline-width: 0px; font-size: 11px; background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(222, 222, 222); height: 0px;"></div><h3 style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-size: 1.5em; background-color: transparent; border-bottom-style: none; color: rgb(0, 52, 90); font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif; line-height: 2em;"></h3><p style="text-align: left;"><img src="http://api.ning.com/files/4sI*ljph9y-fuQ1rfGX-au0nK764r-hX-NGDNGQtiCD0fFffJC0zKTQDEy9h1mYojcTfet3GLE96gJ6-7FqiRiPP6o-AGHrD/WeNeedBillysLaw.jpg" alt=""></p><h3 style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-size: 1.5em; background-color: transparent; border-bottom-style: none; color: rgb(0, 52, 90); font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif; line-height: 2em;">02.23.10</h3><div class="body_content" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-size: 11px; background-color: transparent;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-size: 1.1em; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-size: 11px; background-color: transparent; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; color: black;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; background-color: transparent;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;">WASHINGTON, D.C. – </span></b><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;">Today, Senator Joe Lieberman (ID-CT) <a href="http://lieberman.senate.gov/index.cfm/news-events/news/2010/2/lieberman-introduces-bill-to-assist-families-of-missing-adults">introduced legislation to assist the families of missing adults</a>. The measure, called the <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-size: 15px; background-color: transparent;">Help Find the Missing Act</i>, or <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-size: 15px; background-color: transparent;">Billy’s Law </i>(H.R. 3695), is named for Waterbury-resident Billy Smolinski Jr., who disappeared from his home on August 24, 2004. The legislation will improve data-sharing about missing people; assist law enforcement in advancing their efforts to compile and track missing persons data; and provide funding to improve, monitor and maintain that data. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-size: 1.1em; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-size: 1.1em; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: left; display: inline ! important;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"><b><img src="http://api.ning.com/files/VQh*35bkVSK8YTZTmjriBEmDOGQNMr48ixvqe1*wcCyUN4PF4SB0Wuu8qb9VskVgRMVmXOJny1zMM2FTdBWnGV98QPaEgB1s/xlieberman.jpg" alt=""></b></span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-size: 1.1em; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;"><b><a href="http://lieberman.senate.gov/index.cfm/news-events/news/2010/2/lieberman-introduces-bill-to-assist-families-of-missing-adults">Senator Lieberman issued the following statement:</a></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-size: 1.1em; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;"><b> </b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-size: 1.1em; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;"><b>“As a parent, my heart goes out to every family that has experienced the disappearance of a loved one. Each year, tens of thousands of Americans go missing, causing heartbreak and loss for people across the country. Passing <a href="http://helpfindthemissingact.blogspot.com">Billy’s Law</a> will offer families of missing adults confidence that we are doing everything we can to locate their loved ones. I thank Jan and Bill Smolinski of Waterbury, Connecticut for their courage and perseverance as they continue the search for their son, <a href="http://justice4billy.com">Billy Smolinski, Jr</a>., who disappeared without a trace on August 24, 2004. I am grateful for the support that my colleagues Senator Schumer, Gillibrand, and Merkley have offered for this legislation and remain committed to doing everything possible in the United States Senate to assist families of missing adults.”</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-size: 1.1em; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"><br></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-size: 1.1em; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; outline-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1.5em;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; outline-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://justice4billy.com">The Man behind the Bill - </a></span></b></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://justice4billy.com">Missing Billy Smolinski - </a></span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://justice4billy.com">http://justice4billy.com</a></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-size: 1.1em; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;"><img src="http://api.ning.com/files/5kMmHdDgwFTSVSy5UefdJ5ow7v4Cu5-NQD0QaNNEg54e6cZjlkH4OXMYvva1ndjqxJprBTYHk2XzmiJpb*SkxLtVqK8czNl7/billy_smolinski_thumb1.jpg" alt=""></span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-size: 1.1em; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"><br></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-size: 1.1em; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;"><b><br></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-size: 1.1em; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;"><b><a href="http://www.eaglerarelife.com/content/jan-smolinski">Billy's Mom, Who ALWAYS HOPES! - Jan Smolinski</a></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-size: 1.1em; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;"><img src="http://api.ning.com/files/0egVGMqZqc8RlShbYS4g708ddfc8SADCeDxU94Uelos2v4ayDyZ4-fbFlLb2hTxfglKjc4tkbfSwFcyNbJrn11yhr4Yf8ffw/JanRareLife.jpg" alt=""></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-size: 1.1em; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-size: 1.1em; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-size: 1.1em; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;"><i>-----------------------------------------------------</i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-size: 1.1em; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"><i>Posted on Peace4 the Missing</i></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-size: 1.1em; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"><i><a href="http://peace4missing.ning.com">http://peace4missing.ning.com</a></i></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-size: 1.1em; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"><br></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-size: 1.1em; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"><br></span></font></p><h1 style="font-weight: bold;" class="page-title"><a href="http://criminaljustice.change.org/petitions/view/support_the_help_the_missing_act_aka_billys_law_s3019"><font size="6">Support The Help The Missing Act a.k.a. Billy’s Law (S.3019)</font></a></h1><br><br><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-size: 1.1em; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"><br></span></font></p></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12315837579262893019noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4178376937559.post-69272896834876520752010-11-29T09:36:00.000-08:002011-05-06T17:31:04.252-07:00Billy Smolinski, the Missing Son who Inspired the Creation of Billy's Law<span style="font-style: italic;">We at <a href="http://peace4missing.ning.com/">Peace4 the Missing</a> are so proud to have <a href="http://peace4missing.ning.com/profiles/blogs/proposed-bill-billys-law">Billy's Mom, Jan Smolinski</a> as a part of this place ... and even more so forever grateful to <a href="http://www.justice4billy.com/">Billy and his family for the creation of Billy's Law</a>.</span><br />
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"Uncertainty is a cancer that crushes the spirit of loved ones left behind. <a href="http://peace4missing.ning.com/forum/categories/namusgov-billys-lawhr-3695/listForCategory">With this bill</a>, we have an opportunity to make changes nationwide and gives families like mine hope for a better, more certain tomorrow," said <a href="http://peace4missing.ning.com/profile/JanSmolinski">(Jan) Smolinski</a>.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.justice4billy.com/"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Justice for Billy ~ Billy's Guiding Light of Hope ~ Visit Billy Smolinski's Site Now to Find Out More About This Amazing Man and the Family Who Misses Him ...</span></span></a></div><br />
Every year tens of thousands of Americans go missing, never to be seen by their loved ones again. At the same time, there are also an estimated 40,000 sets of unidentified human remains that are being held or disposed of across the country, and no organized system to match cases and remains. <a href="http://peace4missing.ning.com/profiles/blogs/well-never-stop-searching-for">Billy's family</a> has experienced many obstacles in <a href="http://www.justice4billy.com/" style="font-weight: bold;">searching for their missing son</a>, including disconnected federal databases and a systematic reluctance to prioritize missing adult cases.<br />
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<a href="http://www.chrismurphy.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=393&Itemid=55">"Billy's Law," introduced by Murphy and Poe last year</a>, empowers families and loved ones of the missing to find justice by helping to secure funding for the only federal missing persons and unidentified remains database that can be cross-searched, accessed and added to by the public - the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (<a href="http://namus.gov/">NamUs</a>). This database enables the loved ones of the missing to spend countless hours searching for a match and add invaluable information to the case profile that only they know. <br />
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The legislation helps to streamline the reporting process for law enforcement and medical examiners by connecting two major federal missing persons and unidentified remains databases- the FBI's National Crime Information Center (NCIC) and the <a href="http://namus.gov/">NamUs</a>. Connecting these databases makes them more comprehensive and more likely to lead to a missing person or unidentified remains match. <br />
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<a href="http://helpfindthemissingact.blogspot.com/">Billy's Law</a> also creates an incentive grants program to coroners, medical examiners, and law enforcement agencies to help facilitate the reporting of missing persons and unidentified remains to the federal databases. Grants can also be used for training programs on how to correctly use the databases and best handle these cases. <br />
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<a href="http://peace4missing.ning.com/forum/categories/namusgov-billys-lawhr-3695/listForCategory">Billy's Law</a> builds upon Connecticut's 2007 Law Enforcement and Missing Persons law as it also calls for the issuance of broad recommendations for standards and procedures for law enforcement to follow in dealing with missing persons and unidentified remains. <br />
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"The <a href="http://waterburyobserver.blogspot.com/2010/02/fire.html">Smolinskis story</a> is tragic, but this family's pursuit of justice, and desire to change the system for the better, is nothing less than heroic. I thank Jan for her courage to fight the system and change it for others across the nation," said <a href="http://www.chrismurphy.house.gov/">Murphy</a>.<br />
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<b>FIND OUT MORE ABOUT BILLY'S LAW AT PEACE4 THE MISSING - <a href="http://peace4missing.ning.com/">http://peace4missing.ning.com</a> </b>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12315837579262893019noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4178376937559.post-44587115519335453862010-11-02T08:35:00.000-07:002010-11-02T08:39:25.793-07:00NamUs.gov WITH Billy's Law: Stronger Together - A Perfect Match<a href="http://peace4missing.ning.com/">Billy's Law (The Help Find the Missing Act)</a> is a proposed bill that was created in order to strengthen and increase utilization of our National Missing Persons Database (<a href="http://namus.gov/">NamUs.Gov</a>)<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">S. 3019 (more commonly known as Billy's Law) would authorize funding for, and increase accessibility to, (NamUs.Gov) the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System, to facilitate data sharing between such system and the National Crime Information Center database of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, to provide incentive grants to help facilitate reporting to such systems.</span><br />
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</div>Additional details regarding are updated frequently and can be found on <a href="http://peace4missing.ning.com/">Peace4 the Missing</a> ... <a href="http://peace4missing.ning.com/">http://peace4missing.ning.com/</a><br />
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There are many John and Jane Does buried in Potter's Fields throughout the nation. Often the cost of the exhumation itself is the single obstacle between these poor souls and the DNA sampling that will help them to be returned to their family."</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; "><br /></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; "><br /></p><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; "><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><b><a href="http://peace4missing.ning.com/forum/categories/namusgov-billys-lawhr-3695/listForCategory">** BILLY'S LAW ** The Help Find the Missing Act</a></b> </p></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="padding-top: 6px; padding-right: 6px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 6px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; "><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center; "><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAD48PjJ5WH-7eqobvkqjZgceQRHXQIce1ZzRZHPCz1wIcKbUmr_uOvuC1_Ti1_J9SMBoM9uBruBW2_7C3D5pyWtTTWe1QgvIA6yWGyhN9ezH89NecAIxbNIJ6vqCS9m6Ud-8dgfmx/s1600/StrongerTogether4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; "><img border="0" height="307" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAD48PjJ5WH-7eqobvkqjZgceQRHXQIce1ZzRZHPCz1wIcKbUmr_uOvuC1_Ti1_J9SMBoM9uBruBW2_7C3D5pyWtTTWe1QgvIA6yWGyhN9ezH89NecAIxbNIJ6vqCS9m6Ud-8dgfmx/s400/StrongerTogether4.jpg" width="400" style="cursor: move; " /></a></p></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px; padding-top: 4px; text-align: center; "><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:130%;"><b><a href="http://peace4missing.ning.com/profiles/blogs/proposed-bill-billys-law">Find Out More Here About Billy's Law and NamUs!</a></b></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; "></div></div><div><br /></div><a href="http://activelyaware.blogspot.com/2010/11/jan-smolinski-nominee-of-eagle-rare.html">Actively Aware: Jan Smolinski, Nominee of the Eagle Rare Life Award 2011</a><br /><br /><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; "><a href="http://peace4missing.ning.com/"><b>Peace4 the Missing</b></a><b> </b></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><i>A Voice Platform and Support Network for Families with Missing Loved Ones </i></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://peace4missing.ning.com/">http://peace4missing.ning.com</a></span></p>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12315837579262893019noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4178376937559.post-8754370339392842692010-09-05T12:18:00.000-07:002010-09-05T12:18:07.286-07:00Maureen's letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee in support of Billy's Law S.3019 - PEACE4 THE MISSING<a href="http://peace4missing.ning.com/forum/topics/maureens-letter-to-the-senate">Maureen's letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee in support of Billy's Law S.3019 - PEACE4 THE MISSING</a>desksidehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02088540502298589085noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4178376937559.post-46338575029764850682010-08-03T14:39:00.000-07:002010-08-03T14:39:20.476-07:00What is Billy's Law and NamUs.Gov?<b><i>(PowerPoint Presentation below from </i></b><a href="https://academies.orainc.com/"><b><i>NamUs Academy</i></b></a><b><i> Team Michigan - *relevant to the Nation*)</i></b><br />
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<b>Billy's Law</b><br />
<a href="http://helpfindthemissingact.blogspot.com/">http://helpfindthemissingact.blogspot.com</a><br />
<a href="http://peace4missing.ning.com/forum/categories/namusgov-billys-lawhr-3695/listForCategory">http://peace4missing.ning.com/forum/categories/namusgov-billys-lawhr-3695/listForCategory</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12315837579262893019noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4178376937559.post-30549832634201698722010-08-02T11:15:00.001-07:002010-08-02T11:17:51.210-07:00leave no stone unturned<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Tahoma, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">A must read for all <b><a href="http://peace4missing.ning.com/">Family Members of the Missing</a></b> ...</span><br />
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</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Tahoma, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><b>TRIPLE CHECK</b></span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Tahoma, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">your family members</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Tahoma, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><a href="http://findthemissing.org/">NamUs profile</a></span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Tahoma, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">NOW! </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Tahoma, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Tahoma, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">Make certain that steps have been taken to include all DNA/Dental info on their <a href="http://findthemissing.org/">NamUs profile</a>!<br />
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You deserve answers - this <b>MUST</b> be done in order to help you receive them.</span><br />
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</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Tahoma, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">Please click the link below to find out more and how to do so.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Tahoma, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><a href="http://peace4missing.ning.com/profiles/blogs/missing-persons-family">http://peace4missing.ning.com/profiles/blogs/missing-persons-family</a></span></div></div></div><div><br />
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If you are FOR the Missing - you are FOR <a href="http://namus.gov/" target="_blank">NamUs.Gov</a> and if you are for NamUs.Gov - you are FOR <a href="http://peace4missing.ning.com/forum/categories/namusgov-billys-lawhr-3695/listForCategory">Billy's Law</a> - they all go hand in hand - Support them by choosing today to make a huge, positive difference in the lives of many.<br />
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<b>3 Simple Steps to Help Find the Missing - Billy's Law<br />
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<div style="text-align: left;"><img alt="" src="http://api.ning.com/files/AE3xoXF0TO7hYW7Qm81Iu3CVQNvAjW7t7uIkJA*5g7xPpnN5*d7yYFr-IbIKDmaE6cmT4xRlpe9cbQUsnM8cDZhX7YrG9*0*/NeedBillysLaw2.jpg" /></div>1. Copy/Paste this letter located <b><a href="http://peace4missing.ning.com/forum/topics/sample-letter-to-senators-for">HERE</a></b><br />
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2. Go <b><a href="http://judiciary.senate.gov/about/members.cfm" target="_blank">HERE</a></b> to find contact info for Senators on the United States Judicial Committee<br />
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3. Fill out the form on each of their individual websites (copy/paste the letter in the remarks area) and click send ...Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12315837579262893019noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4178376937559.post-76336725052858322382010-07-31T15:48:00.000-07:002010-07-31T16:03:18.544-07:00Make History - Participate in the passing of Billy's Law<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The following video is a simple version of the revolutionary action that is currently going on regarding </span><a href="http://peace4missing.ning.com/forum/categories/namusgov-billys-lawhr-3695/listForCategory"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Billy's Law, The Help Find the Missing Act</span></b></a><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> </span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">... </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">We are currently at status point = (</span><a href="http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/111_SN_3019.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">S3019</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">) Senate Judiciary Committee.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">At this time (especially now through August 9th) it is of essential importance that all of us contact each member on the Committee and encourage them to co-sponsor </span><a href="http://helpfindthemissingact.blogspot.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Billy's Law</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Here's </span></span><a href="http://peace4missing.ning.com/forum/topics/3-simple-steps-to-help-find"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">how</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> to go about that in 3 simple and very easy steps ...</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><span style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">1. Copy/Paste this letter located</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><a href="http://peace4missing.ning.com/forum/topics/sample-letter-to-senators-for" style="color: #3333ff; font-size: 1em; position: static !important; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">HERE</span></span></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important;" /></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><span style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">2. Go</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><a href="http://judiciary.senate.gov/about/members.cfm" style="color: #3333ff; font-size: 1em; position: static !important; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">HERE</span></span></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><span style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">to find contact info for Senators on the United States Judicial Committee</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important;" /></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><span style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">3. Fill out the form on each of their individual websites (copy/paste the letter in the remarks area) and click send ...</span></span></span><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c111:S.3019:"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">What is S3019, Billy's Law?</span></i></a></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">S. 3019 would authorize funding for, and increase accessibility to, (</span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">NamUs.Gov</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">) the </span><a href="http://namus.gov/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">National Missing and Unidentified Persons System</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">, to facilitate data sharing between such system and the National Crime Information Center database of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, to provide incentive grants to help facilitate reporting to such systems.</span></i></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12315837579262893019noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4178376937559.post-41747315562455925822010-07-20T06:23:00.000-07:002010-07-20T06:23:33.284-07:00The Forgotten PSA on NamUs.Gov<object height="295" width="480"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/y_FjX_hi0Ls&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="never"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/y_FjX_hi0Ls&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="never" width="480" height="295"></embed></object>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12315837579262893019noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4178376937559.post-74273418906012222982010-07-16T19:37:00.000-07:002010-07-16T19:37:12.789-07:00Facebook Challenge ~ Change Your Profile Pic in Support of Billy's Law TODAY!<a href="http://peace4missing.ning.com/forum/categories/namusgov-billys-lawhr-3695/listForCategory">Billy's Law</a> profile pic options attached ... change yours on <a href="http://facebook.com/">Facebook</a> in support of Billy's Law ... spread awareness and let it be known that You actively support the <a href="http://helpfindthemissingact.blogspot.com/">Help Find the Missing Act</a>!<br />
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</div><div>But don't stop there! ... Next, challenge others as well to show their Billy's Law support and actively participate in the <b><a href="http://peace4missing.ning.com/forum/topics/3-simple-steps-to-help-find">3 Simple Steps to Save Billy's Law</a></b> ...</div><div><br />
</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Tahoma, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"><b style="font-size: 1em; xg-p: static !important;">1. Copy/Paste this letter located</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Tahoma, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Tahoma, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"><a href="http://peace4missing.ning.com/forum/topics/sample-letter-to-senators-for" style="color: #3333ff; font-size: 1em; text-decoration: none; xg-p: static !important;"><b style="font-size: 1em; xg-p: static !important;">HERE</b></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Tahoma, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"><br style="font-size: 1em; xg-p: static !important;" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Tahoma, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"><b style="font-size: 1em; xg-p: static !important;">2. Go</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Tahoma, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Tahoma, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"><a href="http://judiciary.senate.gov/about/members.cfm" style="color: #3333ff; font-size: 1em; text-decoration: none; xg-p: static !important;"><b style="font-size: 1em; xg-p: static !important;">HERE</b></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Tahoma, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Tahoma, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"><b style="font-size: 1em; xg-p: static !important;">to find contact info for Senators on the United States Judicial Committee</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Tahoma, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"><br style="font-size: 1em; xg-p: static !important;" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Tahoma, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"><b style="font-size: 1em; xg-p: static !important;">3. Fill out the form on each of their individual websites (copy/paste the letter in the remarks area) and click send ...</b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Tahoma, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"><b style="font-size: 1em; xg-p: static !important;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Tahoma, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"><span style="position: static !important;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">1. Copy/Paste this letter located</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="position: static !important;"><a href="http://peace4missing.ning.com/forum/topics/sample-letter-to-senators-for" style="color: #3333ff; position: static !important; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">HERE</span></a></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Tahoma, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"><span style="position: static !important;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://peace4missing.ning.com/forum/topics/sample-letter-to-senators-for" style="color: #3333ff; position: static !important; text-decoration: none;"></a></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Tahoma, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"><span style="position: static !important;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">2. Go</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span><a href="http://judiciary.senate.gov/about/members.cfm" style="color: #3333ff; position: static !important; text-decoration: none;"><span style="position: static !important;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">HERE</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="position: static !important;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">to find contact info for Senators on the United States Judicial Committee</span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Tahoma, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"><span style="position: static !important;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Tahoma, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"><span style="position: static !important;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">3. Fill out the form on each of their individual websites (copy/paste the letter in the remarks area) and click send .</span></span><b style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important;">..</b></span></div></td></tr>
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<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Tahoma, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"><br style="font-size: 1em; xg-p: static !important;" /><b style="font-size: 1em; xg-p: static !important;">If someone you love so dearly goes missing you want the solution yesterday not tomorrow.</b><br style="font-size: 1em; xg-p: static !important;" />Families get so frustated law enforcement is not doing enough, well here is the wake up call, an opportunity to become more CSI like you see on tv. A person can still be alive and the <a href="http://namus.gov/">NamUs database</a> can still be utilized to help bring them home.</span><br />
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