What Is the Amber Plan?

Background: In 1996, 9-year old Amber Hagerman was kidnapped and brutally murdered in Arlington, Texas. Amber's tragic death had such a profound impact on her community and throughout northern Texas that it prompted regional law enforcement agencies and the Dallas/Fort Worth Association of Radio Managers to develop this innovative emergency alert plan to help recover abducted children. They named it the "Amber Plan", and it has since been embraced by communities across the country.

The Amber Alert! Plan, now operating in 9 states, nationwide, is a voluntary partnership between law-enforcement agencies and broadcasters to send out an emergency alert to the public when a child has been abducted and it is believed that the child's life is in grave danger! Under the Amber Plan!, participating Louisiana radio and television stations will interrupt programming to broadcast information about the abducted child, using the Emergency Alert System (EAS).