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Missing Children Act of 1982
Authorizes the Attorney General to collect and exchange information that would assist in the identification of unidentified deceased individuals and the location of missing persons including missing children. -
Missing Children's Assistance Act of 1984
Directs the Adminsitrations of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Deliquency Prevention to establish and operate a national toll-free telephone line for children and national resource center and clearning house. -
National Child Search Assistance Act of 1990
Requires each Federal, state, and local law enforcement agency to enter each missing case of a missing child under the age of 18 to the National Crime and Information Center. Ensures that no law enforcement agency within the state establishes or maintains any policy that requires the observance of any waiting period before accepting a missing child or unidentified person report. -
Jacob Wetterling Crimes Against Children and Sexually Violent Offender Registration Act of 1994 (Jacob Wetterling Act)
Requires states to register individuals convicted of sex crimes against children. -
Megan's Law of 1996 (Amendment to Jacob Wetterling Act)
Allows the states discretion to establish criteria for disclosure but compels them to make private and personal information on registered sex offenders available to the public. -
Suzanne's Law of 2003 (Amendment to the Crime Control Act of 1990)
Requires police to notify the National Crime Information Center when someone between 18-21 is reported missing as part of the national "Amber Alert" bill. Any person under the age of 21 is considered a missing child. -
Amber Hagerman Child Protection Act of 2003
AMBER (America's Missing: Broadcast Emegency Response) Alert Began in Dallas-Ft. Worth when broadcasters teamed up with local polic to develop and early warning system to help abducted children. The legislation provides matching grants to states and communities for equipment and training for the network, which will distribute information quickly, through radio and television broadcasts and electronic highway signs, about kidnapped children and their abductors. -
PROTECT Act of 2003 (Prosecutorial Remedies and Other Tools to end Exploitation of Children Today)
Provides mandatory life imprisonment of sex offenses against a minor if the offender has had a prior convictions of abuse.
Establishes a program to obtain criminal history background checks for volunteer organizations.
Authorizes wiretapping and monitoring of other communications in all cases related to child abuse or kidnapping.
Eliminates statutes of limitations for child abduction/abuses cases.
Bars pretrial release of persons charged with specified offenses against or involving children. -
Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006
Organizes sex offenders into three tiers and mandates that:
-Tier 3 (the most serious offender) update their whereabouts every three months with lifetime registration requirements
-Tier 2 offenders must update their whereabouts every six months with 25 years of registration.
-Tier 1 (including minors are young as 14) update yearly for 15 years.
