Committee considers expanding alert system to include missing vulnerable children and adults
Senate File 3007 would expand Minnesota’s alert system to notify the public when vulnerable people — including children with autism, elderly people with dementia and people with traumatic brain injuries — go missing. Sponsors and advocates argued the change could help locate those at high risk of elopement and drowning.
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The Judiciary and Public Safety Committee heard testimony on Senate File 3007, a bill to expand the state’s missing-person alert system to include children and adults who are vulnerable because of cognitive impairment, autism or other conditions that make elopement likely and deadly.
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