AMBER Alert iPhone app

Click to zoom. Posted by james on February 19th, 2009 at 03:45am Comments

It’s not all that often that an iPhone app that was made especially to save lives comes along. That’s why it is refreshing to see the AMBER Alert app, created by developer Jonathan Zdziarski.

For those not familiar with it, AMBER alert is a child abduction alert bulletin in the United States and Canada, as well as other countries, issued by the authorities upon the suspected abduction of a child and kept in one centralized database.

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AMBER Alert iPhone app is an official application for this missing children database. It provides a real-time feed of recent alerts, including victim photos and information, suspect photos and descriptions, vehicle photos and descriptions, and a reporting mechanism allowing you to report a sighting.

The iPhone’s GPS is used to include your current GPS position with your sighting report, allowing AMBERalert.com to create a geographical search radius based on the number and pattern of reports in a specific location. This provides for smarter policing and can help filter false positives. The information is forwarded to the appropriate state patrol barracks where it can be responded to in a much faster fashion than traditional phone call screening.

As you can see, this is a very useful iPhone app that can potentially help you save lives. It was already submitted into the AppStore by its creator and should appear there soon, so keep an eye out for it. And in the meantime you can visit its official website for more information.

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Robert Lindblad

Another method that can be used is that of Child Search which is a free service offered by psychic Robert Lindblad that has saved lives of missing/kidnapped children internationally and caught their kidnappers / murderers since 1991.
To view, read and listen to magazine, news, documentary, and radio interviews please visit the Child Search website at

http://childsearchpsychic.tripod.com

james

Thank you for the link, Robert. You're doing the righteous thing helping people for free. Best of luck to you.

jerry anderson

tell apple to kick it in the ass and get this app approved NOW!!there are lives at stake here!!

drgardner

Having gone through the horrific experience of a friend's 12 year old brother being abducted and murdered by a stranger, I'm deeply sympathetic with the goal of the application and the AMBER alert program.

Unfortunately, the data at hand suggest the AMBER alert system fails to protect children in these situations. http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/08/a... I'm not sure what the solution is, but it's not clear that grandstanding in support of a questionable system is a good use of time and energy.

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