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Committee considers expanding alert system to include missing vulnerable children and adults
Summary
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.
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.
Senator Hoffman, sponsor of the bill, said the proposal would modify definitions of “missing” and “endangered” persons in state statute to include people diagnosed with dementia, traumatic brain injury and other cognitive impairments. Supporters argued the public and local alert infrastructure could…
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