HB 1030 - Missing Persons Reporting and Identification Act

• Local law enforcement agencies must accept missing person reports without delay and without refusal based on age, circumstances of disappearance, duration missing, jurisdiction, or reporter's relationship to missing person.

• Law enforcement must enter missing person information into National Crime Information Center (NCIC) and National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NaMUS) within 10 days for regular cases or 5 days for high-risk missing persons.

• Agencies may obtain DNA samples from missing persons or family members for submission to state and national DNA identification systems, with samples submitted within 15 days and analyzed with procedures established by the Mississippi Department of Public Safety.

• "High-risk missing persons" include those missing under suspicious or unknown circumstances, missing more than five days, with medical needs, under age 21, or with other factors indicating risk of injury or death; agencies must immediately notify regional law enforcement about high-risk cases.

• Mississippi Department of Public Safety must immediately notify all state and regional law enforcement agencies about high-risk missing persons and ensure proper use of Amber Alerts for children and Silver Alerts for missing adults with cognitive impairments.