An act that would expand missing person alerts has passed through the Wisconsin Senate.
The bill would allow missing children alerts to be distributed even if the case doesn’t qualify for an AMBER Alert. For an AMBER Alert to be issued, the missing child has to be in danger of bodily harm or death. The proposed alert system, which would either be called the Prince Alert or Purple Alert, would be a new system comparable to the Silver alert for seniors. It is now headed to the Wisconsin Assembly for approval.
