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May 26, 2021, 14:07 ET
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FRIENDSWOOD, Texas, May 26, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Data Call Technologies (OTCMKTS: DCLT) is joining forces with the Office of Justice Programs (OJP) and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) by linking Data Call's systems to the AMBER Alert network.
This new collaboration will provide real-time AMBER Alert feeds free of charge to existing and new subscribers of the company's digital signage infotainment content distribution platform, DLManager.
We know a child's chances for a safe recovery are greater when resources are mobilized quickly. Data Call's DLManager content distribution system will aid to ensure a rapid response in the first critical hours after a child goes missing, by enabling thousands of additional public digital video displays (digital signage) to feature profiles of missing children from NCMEC's database that will update automatically based on each display's location.
AMBER Alert is a notification system for abducted children that launched in 1996 in response to the abduction and murder of a nine-year-old girl in Texas, Amber Hagerman. Therefore, AMBER is eponymous, but it is also an acronym – it stands for America's Missing: Broadcast Emergency Response.
As digital signage continues to expand its presence in shopping malls, waiting rooms, banks, hotels, restaurants, schools, and small businesses, the utilization of this vast connected network of screens to expand the visibility of these children and hopefully return them home is well worth the initiative. Getting information about a missing child to people in the very locality in which they were abducted or last seen is key.
As of December 2020, 1,029 children have been rescued and brought safely home specifically because of AMBER Alerts.
"As the world continues to rely on technology and receipt of information in digital form, it becomes more imperative for us to seek out and utilize the best possible ways to engage the public," said John Bischoff, Vice President of NCMEC's Missing Children Division. "Data Call's broad reach of digital signage will help us sending out these alerts
"While Data Call is not the first to provide this free resource to our industry, we truly believe that the introduction of this to our clients and network partners could help make a difference in bringing a child home. I am grateful to the team members of NCMEC, AMBER, and our staff members to make this system available," said Data Call's CEO, Tim Vance.
