Rhode Island General Laws Title 42. State Affairs and Government § 42-28.8-3. Reporting and distribution of information

The police departments of the various towns and cities of the state shall immediately enter the information on the missing person into the National Crime Information Center computer of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and inform the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Police departments shall provide to the parents or guardians of the missing child information release forms from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and advise them of the services of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. The missing children's information center shall send a report to the missing children's information center of the state police. The missing children's information center shall distribute the names of and other descriptive information about these children to the state registrar of vital statistics in the department of health, the commissioner of education, the school districts of the state, all branches of the United States Postal Service in the state, and all law enforcement agencies in the state.