They are trying to pass a law to make it illegal to NOT report a missing child WITHIN 24 hours it the child’s disappearance.
If you go to the police, or call them to file a missing person’s report, they tell you YOU MUST WAIT 24 HOURS first.
Damned if you do, Damned if you don’t.
That’s not true at all. The whole 24 hour thing is largely myth. It’s completely false when a toddler is lost. The police will get involved immediately.
I check the law in my state. California
There is NO waiting period for reporting a person missing. All California police and sheriffs’ departments must accept any report, including a report by telephone, of a missing person, including runaways, without delay and will give priority to the handling of the report.
That’s what I thought, that in most places, the police require that parents must wait 24 hours before doing so.
Either the police will have to change their requirements, or parents will remain trapped in a conundrum.
I know.
We don’t need anymore laws.