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Presented by Ben Patterson Alert Program Administrator
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TxAlerts (Flyer Program) Presented by Ben Patterson Alert Program Administrator Texas Department of Public Safety Missing Person Alerts TDEM oversees issuing AMBER, Silver, Blue and Endangered Missing alerts requested by local law enforcement
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Presented by Ben Patterson Alert Program Administrator
Texas Department of Public Safety
TDEM oversees issuing AMBER, Silver, Blue and Endangered Missing alerts requested by local law enforcement agencies
Alerts (4) Description AMBER Children under age 17 Silver Older adults with Alzheimer's/dementia Blue Suspects who injure or kill law enforcement Endangered Missing Intellectual disability/developmental disorders
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Anderson Andrews Angelina Archer Arm- strong Atascosa Bailey Bandera Bastrop Baylor Bee Bell Bexar Blanco Borden Bosque Bowie Brazoria Brazos Brewster Briscoe Brooks Brown Burleson Burnet Caldwell Callahan Cameron Camp Carson Cass Castro Chambers Cherokee Child- ress Clay Cochran Coke Coleman Collin Collings- worth Colorado Comal Comanche Concho Cooke Coryell Cottle Crane Crockett Crosby Culberson Dallam Dallas Dawson Deaf Smith Denton DeWitt Dickens Dimmit Donley Duval Eastland Ector Edwards Ellis El Paso Erath Falls Fannin Fayette Fisher Floyd Foard Fort Bend Franklin Free- stone Frio Gaines Galveston Garza Gillespie Glass- cock Goliad Gonzales Gray Grayson Gregg Grimes Guadalupe Hale Hall Hamilton Hansford Harde- man Hardin Harris Harrison Hartley Haskell Hays Hemphill Henderson Hidalgo Hill Hockley Hood Hopkins Houston Howard Hudspeth Hunt Hutch- inson Irion Jack Jasper Jeff Davis Jefferson Jim Hogg Jim Wells Johnson Jones Karnes Kauf- man Kendall Kenedy Kent Kerr Kimble King Kinney Kleberg Knox Lamar Lamb Lampasas La Salle Lavaca Lee Leon Liberty Lime- stone Lipscomb Live Oak Llano Loving Lubbock Lynn McCulloch McLennan McMullen Marion Martin Mason Matagorda Maverick Medina Menard Midland Milam Mills Mitchell Mont- ague Montgomery Moore Morris Motley Navarro Newton Nolan Nueces Ochiltree Oldham Orange Palo Pinto Panola Parker Parmer Pecos Polk Potter Presidio Rains Randall Reagan Real Red River Reeves Refugio Roberts Robertson Runnels Rusk Sabine San Augustine San Jacinto San Patricio San Saba Schleicher Scurry Shack- elford Shelby Sherman Smith Starr Stephens Sterling StoneAMBER, Silver, Blue AMBER AMBER AMBER, Silver, Blue, Endangered AMBER, Silver, Blue AMBER, Silver, Blue, Endangered AMBER, Silver, Blue AMBER AMBER AMBER AMBER, Silver, Blue, Endangered AMBER AMBER AMBER, Silver, Blue AMBER AMBER, Silver, Blue, Endangered AMBER, Silver, Blue
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Aside from law enforcement, the public is the next critical tool in finding missing persons The public usually hears of an alert through the media, e-messaging and highway signage
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groups
(Lamar, Clear Channel, etc.)
(TxDOT, TLETS, TLC, etc)
M i s s i n g
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Typically television, social networking and flyers are the formats the public gets the opportunity to get an image of a missing person
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attention unless they are specifically directed to a missing person on a social network or to a specific flyer or are connected somehow to the case
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letters, we actually seem them as multiple images. Text Images
10% 65%
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Which is more effective – the use of physically posting flyers or utilizing social networking.
Mary Ellen O’Toole, Former FBI Profiler appearing
says “Every medium needs to be used”
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Older Flyer App. TxAlerts
Availability for Use DPS Only DPS and Local/Regional Programs Color Grayscale Color Banner No Color Color-coded Social Media Friendly No Yes Application Programming External Internal Primary Data Fields (on first page) 2 4
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sharing of missing person information in addition to printed flyers.
devices – 95% cell phones and 77% smartphones
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Note that only 2 boxes contain information that will appear on the flyer
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Suspect Victim Vehicle
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Browser search “DPS MyTrain”
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Ben Patterson Alert Program Coordinator (512)424-2445 or ben.patterson@dps.texas.gov If you ever have any questions, just as Blondie would always say “Call Me”
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