Tell the United States Senators to pass Billy's Law (S3019) NOW! ~ Sample Letter Here!
Please take just one short moment of your time to urge your senators to support and strengthen the Help Find the Missing Act ~ (S3019) Billy's Law. It is up to us to make our voices heard — for the dignity and sanctity of each missing loved one and nameless human life!
The following was written by Billy's Mother, Jan Smolinski ...
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
A missing person DOES NOT have to be deceased for this to work.
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.
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??
If you say I don't have to worry about this it won't happen to my family, think again ~
NO ONE IS EXEMPT!!
It is time to wake up!
It is time to get the ball rolling and support the best database to date.
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.
It is 2010, this is why we in this country need
S3019 ~ Help Find the Missing Act ~ Billy's Law.
Email each member on the Judiciary committee, ask each Senator to co sponsor the bill.
If it happened to one of theirs they would certainly want the best way to help achieve answers.
How to make your voice count ...
A sample letter/email for Senators that you can use is located at the following link ...
http://peace4missing.ning.com/forum/topics/sample-letter-to-senators-for
Contact page for United States Judiciary Committee Senators ...http://judiciary.senate.gov/about/members.cfm
Additional details can be found by clicking on the following link ... http://peace4missing.ning.com/forum/topics/help-find-the-missing
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Missing Persons Awareness and Support Network
http://peace4missing.ning.com
