HB 2892 Summary

• Law enforcement agencies must accept missing person reports without delay and cannot refuse reports based on the person's age, duration of disappearance, apparent voluntariness, or reporter's relationship to the missing person.

• Law enforcement must attempt to collect detailed information about missing persons including physical descriptions, identifying marks, photographs, contact information, and details about potential abductors or last known contacts.

• For missing persons unclaimed after 30 days, law enforcement must attempt to obtain DNA samples, dental/skeletal x-rays, fingerprints, and dental charting for entry into state and federal databases.

• High-risk missing persons (those missing under suspicious circumstances, abducted by strangers, missing over 30 days, or at medical risk) must be reported to the department within 2 hours and entered into national crime information center database within 2 hours.

• County medical examiners must obtain DNA samples, photographs, fingerprints, and x-rays of unidentified human remains before disposal or cremation, and must enter identifying information into state and federal databases within specified timeframes.