Showing posts with label national missing database. Show all posts
Showing posts with label national missing database. Show all posts
Sunday, January 23, 2011
Please Voice Your Support of NamUs.gov and Billy's Law for The Families of the Missing
The following was written by Billy's Mother, Jan Smolinski ... http://peace4missing.ning.com/profiles/blogs/your-voice-counts-for-missing/edit
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.
Please Help Find Our Missing Loved Ones
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.
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)
More info can be found on PEACE4 THE MISSING
Voice Platform and Support Network for Families of Missing and Victims of Crime
http://peace4missing.ning.com/
Peace4 Page on Facebook ... http://www.facebook.com/pages/Peace4-the-Missing/114101641947
NamUs.gov
http://namus.gov/
Billy's Law
http://helpfindthemissingact.blogspot.com/
http://justice4billy.com/
Friday, July 16, 2010
Facebook Challenge ~ Change Your Profile Pic in Support of Billy's Law TODAY!
Billy's Law profile pic options attached ... change yours on Facebook in support of Billy's Law ... spread awareness and let it be known that You actively support the Help Find the Missing Act!
But don't stop there! ... Next, challenge others as well to show their Billy's Law support and actively participate in the 3 Simple Steps to Save Billy's Law ...
1. Copy/Paste this letter located HERE
2. Go HERE to find contact info for Senators on the United States Judicial Committee
3. Fill out the form on each of their individual websites (copy/paste the letter in the remarks area) and click send ...
2. Go HERE to find contact info for Senators on the United States Judicial Committee
3. Fill out the form on each of their individual websites (copy/paste the letter in the remarks area) and click send ...
It truly does take a Village ... and that Village is where You Live!
Friday, July 9, 2010
Your Voice Counts for Missing Persons Change!
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
Please join us at Peace4 the Missing
Missing Persons Awareness and Support Network
http://peace4missing.ning.com
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.
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| Please Help Find Our Missing Loved Ones |
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
Please join us at Peace4 the Missing
Missing Persons Awareness and Support Network
http://peace4missing.ning.com
Monday, March 8, 2010
Billy's Law: Making NamUs.Gov Happen
According to a recent Associated Press (AP) report, the free online database `NamUs' - short for the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System - is only being used by 6.5 percent, or 1,100, of the country's 17,000law enforcement agencies, for tracking missing persons.The clearinghouse, which is designed to help identify over 40,000 sets of unknown remains that languish with the country's medical examiners, is not as widely used as it should be largely because either the lack of adequate publicity has resulted in hardly any awareness about it, or most law enforcement agencies are chary of using their already-limited staff resources to participate in the service.
Nonetheless, the AP report also specified that NamUs - which promises to solve almost 100,000 missing persons' cases of the country - has thus far helped crack 16 cases, after becoming fully operational last year.
Furthermore, the service is home to nearly 6,200 unidentified sets of remains, and 2,800 missing people; has, as per The Crime Report, been accessed by over 185,000 people, for missing persons' details, till January 2009.
To encourage a wider use of NamUs and seeking additional funding set aside for the service, a Cheshire, Connecticut-based woman Janice Smolinski is currently championing a bill in the Congress. The bill - "Billy's Law," named after Smolinski's 31-year-old son Billy, who went missing in 2004 - will mandate law enforcement agencies to database details about all the 21-or-over missing adults.
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