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Committee hears bill to create autism-specific missing-persons alert
Summary
Representatives and state law-enforcement officials discussed House Bill 465, which would create an autism-specific missing-persons alert tied to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation and existing alert networks; the committee asked staff to work with the GBI to refine language and meet early next week for a vote.
Representative Gilliard presented House Bill 465 to the Human Relations & Aging Committee as a hearing, saying the proposal is aimed at improving searches for missing people who have autism and related conditions.
“This bill is very personal to me,” Representative Gilliard said, describing family experience and citing recent deaths of missing people with autism that he said illustrated the difficulties searches face. He told the committee the bill would create an autism alert system patterned on existing missing-persons alerts and use established networks to disseminate information quickly.
The bill would give the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) authority to activate…
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