amber alert

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1. CanadaUSA public notification of a child abduction.

plural AMBER Alerts

1. Alternative letter-case form of amber alert.

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   We don’t find every use of ALPRs objectionable. For example, we do not generally object to using them to check license plates against lists of stolen cars, for AMBER Alerts, or for toll collection, provided they are deployed and used fairly and subject to proper checks and balances, such as ensuring devices are not disproportionately deployed in low-income communities and communities of color, and that the “hot lists” they are run against are legitimate and up to date.

   2023 February 13, Chad Marlow & Jay Stanley, “How to Pump the Brakes on Your Police Department’s Use of Flock’s Mass Surveillance License Plate Readers”, in ACLU, archived from the original on 03 Apr 2025

plural AMBER alerts

1. Alternative letter-case form of amber alert.

   Don’t people realize that snatching your purse is just gonna end up in an AMBER alert?

   2010 December 2, Eric Spitznagel, “Kirsten Dunst on Bad Boys, Nude Scenes, and Beatnik Boot Camp”, in Graydon Carter, editor, Vanity Fair, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 Apr 2015

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   Most uses of the Emergency Broadcast System, such as tornado or flood warnings, are designed to help people look out for themselves. AMBER alerts, by contrast, try to get them to help someone else. It's a crowdsourced solution to a daunting problem that police often don't have the resources to solve.

   2013 August 6, Jon Healey, “Californians climb the learning curve for AMBER text alerts”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 07 May 2014

   An AMBER alert was issued for Jace Saunders on Monday morning after he was last seen Sunday afternoon

   2024 December 16, Kelly Rissman, “Grandma turns self in after AMBER alert was issued when she allegedly took 5-year-old boy”, in The Independent, London: Independent News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 Dec 2024

plural Amber Alerts

1. Alternative letter-case form of amber alert.

   An Amber Alert for 3-year-old Nola Dinkins was canceled Wednesday as police now investigate the incident as a homicide.

   2025 June 12, Erin Keller, “Mom claimed a man kidnapped her 3-year-old daughter at gunpoint. Cops now say she is the one who killed the toddler”, in The Independent, London: Independent News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 Jun 2025

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   Desperation does spur creative thinking. Like this: One state lawmaker wants to turn electronic Caltrans freeway signs into advertising billboards in between Amber Alerts and road condition reports.

   2016 April 27, Mariel Garza, “Amber alerts and Taco Bell ads? That's an accident waiting to happen”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 Apr 2016

   Regardless of what kind of phone you use, ShakeAlert can still find its way to you if an earthquake of magnitude 5 or higher hits. For areas also likely to surpass a high shaking threshold, wireless carriers are equipped to automatically send warnings to every phone using a similar emergency system to Amber Alerts.

   2022 November 14, Geoffrey A. Fowler, “America has an earthquake early-warning system now — on your phone”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Nov 2022

plural Amber alerts

1. Alternative letter-case form of amber alert.

   It is fabulous that the Seat Pleasant girl who was the subject of an Amber alert was recovered safely […]

   2010 February 20, “How to improve Amber alerts”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 Jul 2025

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   Amber alerts, in which bulletins about abductions are quickly distributed through the news and posted on highway signs, were named in recognition of Amber Hagerman, a 9-year-old Texas girl who was kidnapped and killed in 1996. “Just pass this, just pass this,” Senator Patrick J[oseph] Leahy of Vermont, the ranking Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, urged House members. The Senate passed a bill on the Amber alerts in January.

   2003 March 14, Carl Hulse, “End of an Abduction: Alert Network; Lawmakers Rush to Back a National Alert System”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 May 2015

   Ego Nwodim, who came into her own last season, was the first special guest. “Black Woman Who’s Been Missing for 10 Years” had some thoughts on America’s sick fascination with missing white girls. [“]If the tragically missing has a straight blonde ponytail, she’s going to get an Amber alert, the promise of a hefty reward, portraits of her grieving parents, and around-the-clock news coverage.”

   2021 October 3, Karen Valby, “SNL Got the Gang Back Together, But Still Can‘t Figure Out Joe Biden”, in Radhika Jones, editor, Vanity Fair, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 Oct 2021