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Delaware Code Title 11. Crimes and Criminal Procedure § 8581A. Establishment of the Delaware Green Alert Program

Current as of January 01, 2026 | Updated by Findlaw Staff

(a) Each law-enforcement agency shall implement a Green Alert Program, consistent with the ACIM Alert Program and the Gold Alert Program, for missing members of the armed forces.

(b) Each law-enforcement agency may promulgate necessary rules and regulations to implement the Green Alert Program.  The rules and regulations must include the following:

(1) Procedures for the use of the Delaware Information Analysis Center to provide support to the investigating law-enforcement agency as a resource for the receipt, analysis, and dissemination of information regarding a missing member of the armed forces and the whereabouts of the missing member of the armed forces.

(2) Procedures for the investigating law-enforcement agency to use to verify whether a missing member of the armed forces is missing and the circumstances under which the agency must enter descriptive information of the missing member of the armed forces into the Delaware Criminal Justice Information System and the National Crime Information Center system.

(3) The process for reporting the information to designated media outlets for this State.

(c) The Delaware State Police shall adopt rules and regulations for the use of the Delaware Information and Analysis Center to assist investigating law-enforcement agencies during their investigations as a resource for the receipt, analysis, and dissemination of information to those agencies that have a need and right to know about a missing member of the armed forces.

(d) The Department of Transportation shall adopt rules and regulations for the display on its variable message signs of appropriate information that may assist in the safe return of a missing member of the armed forces, consistent with the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices and federal requirements.

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