Dear Friends;
I am forwarding a law in the working on a federal level for passage of Billy Law http://www.lostnmissing.com/25.html that will help fund law enforcement coroners and medical examiners etc to get their missing cases entered into NamUS. The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs) is a clearinghouse for missing persons and unidentified decedent records. NamUs is a free online system that can be searched by medical examiners, coroners, law enforcement officials and the general public to solve these cases.
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. Sadly, because of gaps in the nation's missing persons systems, missing persons and unidentified remains are rarely matched. The Help Find the Missing Act (Billy's Law) is an effort to fix these problems and bring closure to the loved ones of the missing.
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Thank you! I know out there somewhere are 10's of 1000's missing loved ones
Vicki



Dear Representative (NAME)


I am contacting you to please support and consider co sponsoring

H.R. 3695, The Help Find the Missing Act (Billy's Law)



· Authorizing, and therefore helping to ensure funding for, the National Missing Persons and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs), 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;

· Connecting 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;

· Creating an incentive grants program to help states, local law enforcement and medical examiners/coroners report missing persons and unidentified remains to NCIC, NamUs, and the National DNA Index System (NDIS); an

· Calling on the DOJ to 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.

· makes it mandatory that missing children be entered into NamUs. This is in accordance to current law that makes it mandatory to report missing children (up to age 21) to NCIC. Also, under the bill, all the current missing children data in NCIC will be automatically transferred to Namus.