Mattie's Call

Mattie's Call is modeled after the AMBER Alert system used to locate missing or abducted children; it uses public-service announcements on radio stations, displays on publicly controlled signaling devices and transmissions to law-enforcement agencies in an attempt to raise awareness of and help the public locate the missing endangered person.^[3]

To qualify for the issuing of a Mattie's Call alert, the following criteria must be met:^[4]

• The missing person must be elderly or otherwise meet Georgia's definition of a disabled adult, which is an individual who is developmentally or cognitively impaired or suffer from dementia or other cognitive disabilities.
• A law enforcement agency verifies the person's disappearance and eliminates alternative explanations for their disappearance.
• The missing person is believed to be in immediate danger of serious injury or death.
• The missing person is listed in the database of the National Crime Information Center.
• There is enough information that exists regarding the missing person that can adequately assist the public in locating them.
• A law enforcement agency is to issue statewide broadcasts to other law enforcement and/or 911 centers in addition to contacting local media in regards to the missing person.

In 2004, radio stations and local law-enforcement agencies in the Atlanta area broadcast information about the 67-year-old Mattie Moore, an Alzheimer's patient who had wandered from her home that April.^[5] Moore was found dead 8 months later in a wooded area 250 meters away.^[2]

• Amber alert
• Silver Alert

• (novel) Stacy Campbell (April 19, 2016). Mattie's Call (Zane Presents). Strebor Books. ISBN 978-1593096007.