Operation Find A Child

Here is another resource to assist in the search for missing children.

Our Purpose

Operation Find A Child was founded in 2007 as an online resource to help bring awareness to missing children cases and teach people how they can help.

Our New “MissingKids” Desktop Application

View CURRENT LIVE imformation on missing kids around the world.

Direct on your desktop while you work, surf, or for getting the message over to Others.

Our New Desktop Application can be used both to gather information on Missing Children’s cases and to print out missing child flyers/posters.

Information currently supplied for the United Kingdom and for ALL States in the US. Information also available on all “Featured Cases” on operationfindachild.org

Ideal use would be at an event - say a fundraiser or the like - where the application is running continuously on a laptop - with either the info for a whole US state or the UK continously being displayed.

You can also get people to use it - its quite user friendly - and people can then see just how many kids are missing and where etc.

The info is LIVE - give or take 15 minutes - from the NCMEC/ICMEC databases.

You can also download the infomation for a whole state/country onto your harddisk and use this info in “Offline-Mode”. Offline Mode being useful when using the application where no internet connection is available - say at outdoor events.

Please download, use and pass-on the Application to Others.

We are planning the Full Release on 25th May but we would like you to download and try our pre-release version just to show you what its all about and so that we may get feedback on it before the release date.

Download Page :

When we have our final version ready (on or before the 25th) we will link our front page banner to the download page at :
http://www.operationfindachild.org/

Repeat offenders and runaways

 

JACKSONVILLE BEACH, FL — For three days, police say a thick wooded area was home to a 12-year-old girl and her 21-year-old boyfriend. The two were living at a transient camp just north of JTB.

The girl’s mother tells First Coast News her daughter ran away more than a week ago. The mother went to pick the girl up from Southside Middle School but then found out she had skipped her last two classes. They later discovered she was with Daniel Rollins. Investigators say the two had met three months ago and were in a relationship.

More to the story.

Campaign for the Missing News: Florida Passes!

Courtesy of Kelly Jolkowski:

Project Jason is pleased to announce the passage of the Jennifer Kesse and Tiffany Sessions Missing Persons Act in the state of Florida. It was passed yesterday, and now awaits the governor’s signature. It is scheduled to go into effect on July 1, 2008.

Congratulations to Drew and Joyce Kesse, Jennifer’s parents, and all who helped pass this bill, a part of Project Jason’s Campaign for the Missing.

 
Other states passed by Campaign for the Missing volunteers include CT, IN, NJ, and OR.

Here are some highlights of the bill.

Basic Summary:

An act relating to missing persons; amending s. 937.021, F.S.; requiring law enforcement agencies to adopt written policies and procedures to be used when investigating missing person reports; requiring law enforcement agencies to submit information to specified databases; providing immunity from civil liability for certain persons involving such reports; requiring that a law enforcement agency obtain a DNA sample after a person has been missing more than 90 days; requiring the Department of Law Enforcement to adopt rules; amending s. 937.022, F.S.;renaming the Missing Children Information Clearinghouse the “Missing Children and Persons Information Clearinghouse”; requiring the clearinghouse to collect and process information regarding missing children, missing persons younger than 26 years of age, and missing persons suspected by a law enforcement agency of being in danger or a victim of criminal activity; providing definitions; providing an effective date.

Highlights:

LE (Law Enforcement) must have written procedures regarding the proper investigation of cases, use of available resources, and monthy review of cases.

Missing persons must be entered into the NCIC and the FL CIC databases within 2 hours.

When a person has been missing for 90 days, DNA may be obtained from the person’s belongings or the appropriate biological family members. LE can obtain DNA   before the 90 days if need be.

The state clearinghouse shall now also include information about missing persons through age 25, and any missing person LE considered to be engandered or a victim of criminal activity. LE is required to report information about these cases to the state clearinghouse.

FL LE shall establish a means  to communicate case information about the case types as noted above.

LE is encouraged to transmit information about the above missing person case types to media and other interested parties who may be on the same distribution list as those on the Amber Alert list. Any person on this list who complies with the request cannot be held liable for any damages in complying with the request to disseminate this information.

(The last point and second point above are the ones which seems to confuse some media into thinking the bill extends the age of Amber Alerts and/or causes an alert to be issued in all cases. As you can see, it does not.)

You can read the full text of the bill here: http://www.flsenate.gov/data/session/2008/Senate/bills/billtext/pdf/s0502.pdf
Thanks again to the families of the missing, such as Jennifer’s family, who are willing to step outside of the circle of their own pain, and work to help increase the odds that even just one more family will be reunitied with their missing loved one. 
There is always hope.
Kelly Jolkowski, Mother of Missing Jason Jolkowski
President and Founder,

Project Jason
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“World, Have Your Say”

One year later,
 
You might be interested in listening to this “World, Have Your Say” interview with families of the missing from all over the world who talk about hope, and giving up or going on. The show’s title is “When is it time to say goodbye?” and was broadcast live yesterday afternoon on BBC World Radio as well as the Sirius and XM satellite radio networks.
 
The show’s host, Peter Dobbie, posed thought provoking questions on the one year anniversary of Madeline McCann’s disappearance:

“But when does the time come to move on? Does there come a point when the family of someone who’s missing must accept what’s happened ? Can a family survive the kind of emotional stress that must be involved in losing someone, without saying goodbye. Do they have to assume that the person has died, to safeguard their own emotional wellbeing ? The McCanns have now attained a kind of celebrity, for them, and indeed for anyone else who’s lost a relative, is that celebrity worth it, if it keeps hope alive ? Or, at what time, does hope die, and become something else ? Once we accept that there is no hope, is that when we begin to find comfort ?”
Guests on the show included several family members of international missing person’s cases, Project Jason’s Kelly Jolkowski, and the President of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, Ernie Allen. 
You can read more about the show here:

 

Listen to the show here:
http://www.projectjason.org/downloads/whys_20080501-2000.mp3

 

With Hope, Always,
Kelly Jolkowski, Mother of Missing Jason Jolkowski
President and Founder,
Project Jason
Read our Voice for the Missing Blog
voice4themissing

http://www.projectjason.orgworldhaveyoursay

Search for Jaliek Rainwalker continues

ALBANY – A search volunteer using sonar equipment Sunday said he found two suspect places in the Hudson River where divers should take a closer look for missing Greenwich 12-year-old Jaliek Rainwalker.

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