CHAPTER 468
S.P. 553 - L.D. 1679
An Act to Assist the Law Enforcement Community in Locating Missing Children
Mandate preamble. This measure requires one or more local units of government to expand or modify activities so as to necessitate additional expenditures from local revenues but does not provide funding for at least 90% of those expenditures. Pursuant to the Constitution of Maine, Article IX, Section 21, two thirds of all of the members elected to each House have determined it necessary to enact this measure.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
Sec. 1. 25 MRSA §2154-A is enacted to read:
§2154-A. Children missing involuntarily
1. Duty of law enforcement agency. A law enforcement agency that receives a missing child report shall immediately inform the following agencies if the missing child is considered a victim or possible victim of a crime under Title 17-A, chapter 13:
A. The child's school, if the child attended school in this State;
B. The municipality in which the child's birth records are kept; and
C. The Vital Records Unit of the Office of Data Research and Vital Statistics in the Department of Human Services.
2. Duties of notified agencies. An agency that receives information from a law enforcement agency under subsection 1 shall identify the files and records of the missing child that are in the agency's custody as pertaining to a child considered a victim or possible victim of a crime under Title 17-A, chapter 13. If a request for those files or records is made, the agency shall immediately notify the law enforcement agency of the request and, when possible, the address of the person making the request.
Effective September 19, 1997, unless otherwise indicated.
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