Families of Missing Persons Need Your Help Now: Support HR 3695!

The poor souls who suffer serious mental illness could be discreetly tagged.therefore easy to trace. the more assistance given to missing persons the better.

Nice to see a good writer from SC

The thing most don't realize is the process (or lack of) when someone goes missing, especially an adult, and even more so, an adult male who is the lowest priority.  There are so many factors involved that it's mind boggling.  Each family is literally left to work their own investigations after a certain point.

This law (Billy's Law) would level the playing field and make sure that there are standarized procedures to be followed for each person reported missing.  The data bases are ever so important, but if a case is not entered in a timely fashion, precious time is wasted and trails go cold.

Please contact your own legislators and beg them for support and sponsorship.  It's going to take ALL of us or this bill will die where it is and three years of a mother's life will be for naught.  Her son is still missing, yet she has the stamina to stand up for all other mothers with missing children.  Every missing person is someone's child.

This is legislation that needs to be passed but we need everyone doing their part. It's one thing to follow or sit around and discuss a missing person case but if you really would like to do something for the missing and their families WRITE TO YOUR REPRESENTATIVES and ask them to support and/or co-sponsor this legislation!!! One of the easiest ways to contact your representatives is through the following link:  www.congress.org  It pulls up all of your representatives and gives you a very easy way to contact them. My spouse was missing for 4 years so I know what it is like to come home after working 12+ hours a day and then sit on a computer and search the internet until the wee hours of the morning looking at dead bodies and/or descriptions of unidentifieds.  Because every jurisdiction appears to be off doing their own thing there was no one central location to search.  And, to make it even more difficult not all list their unidentifieds or input them into any central database.  I talked with law enforcement, coroners, etc., all over the country in the hopes of locating my husband but the shear reality of thee search was overwhelming, so many rocks to overturn and search under.  The Department of Justice has given us a wonderful tool in NamUs.gov where both the data on unidentifieds and the missing can be gathered and searched through.  But, as great as this tool is and no matter how much the families of the missing wanted this tool it is only as good as what is input into it.  The DOJ did a good thing but if Law Enforcement, Medical Examiners, Coroners, etc., are not mandated to use NamUs then the families of the missing have to continue to search for their loved ones in a search that is akin to finding a needle in a haystack. And, if rules are not laid out nationally giving direction to law enforcement as when to begin a search, when to take a missing person report and when to enter it into ONE database the families will be forever left on their own to search and conduct their own investigations. Over 100,000+ missing and over 40,000+ unidentifieds how would you feel if your loved one was one of those numbers?  What would you do when you find out this isn't CSI, this isn't TV, no one rushes to your side to help you?  What would you do when you find out you have to find your loved one yourself?  Wouldn't you want this law in place?  Would you really want to go through what I and 100,000+ other families have or are going through? Write to your representatives.......PLEASE!  Thanks!

We have a software company that makes RFID tags for patient tracking. The benefits for the quality of life for  Alzheimer's patients and other mental disorders is enormous. Patient tracking can make a huge difference in the lives of these people, families and healthcare institutions. Cost reduction by implementing patient tracking has been proven and the ROI is short term.  The healthcare system, hospitals, nursing homes etc. don't want to make the investments in implementing technology to reduce the costs associated in caring for these people. The excuse is always that they either don't have the staff, time or money to invest in new technology.  There are preventive solutions that can reduce the number of people who go missing on the market right now. The healthcare system has to get more involved preventive care and in reducing costs, I'm not really sure that they really want to!