Here at SafeBlog and Safelist, we are 100% committed to public service.

As a business, we are constantly striving to build a classifieds marketplace that is not only better than any other on the Internet, but also safer. However, our ultimate goal is to help keep our communities, both real and virtual, safe for everyone. One of the ways we hope to achieve our goal is by enabling Safelist.com to disseminate timely AMBER Alerts to the users of our platform.

AMBER is an Alert Notification System created by the Child Alert Foundation in 1996, the same year that a 9-year old girl named Amber was kidnapped and murdered in Texas. It now stands for America’s Missing: Broadcast Emergency Response. When the appropriate police organization makes the decision to publish an alert, the U.S. Emergency Alert System issues it via radio, television, highway signs, and other media. There have been a total of 540 successful recoveries to date.

To help find a missing child, it is hypercritical to start the search efforts immediately. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, of the children abducted by strangers and murdered, 75% are killed within the first three hours. Therefore it is absolutely imperative that no time is wasted.

In order to quickly spread the word of a child’s kidnapping during those early moments when every minute is crucial, we have launched a feature on the Safelist website which will instantly notify you of an active AMBER Alert in your area.

Whenever you see the AMBER Alert icon (prominently displayed near the top of all Safelist pages) turn red, it means that there is an active AMBER Alert on a missing child in your area. Upon clicking the button, you will see detailed information about the alert, including the name of the missing child, a description and picture, and also any available information on the suspect. Since the alerts are hyper-targeted by zip codes, you will only be notified when an  alert is specifically relevant to your area. To guarantee the widest possible dissemination of these alerts, we will also be posting the information on Twitter and on our Facebook page as well.

No alert:

Active AMBER alert in your area:

In order for us to ensure safe communities for all our families, we need everyone’s help, and especially yours.  One way you can contribute is by quickly spreading the news of an active AMBER Alert amongst your friends and family. You may also follow us on Twitter @Safelist and on our Facebook fanpage to make sure that you are quickly notified of an alert in your area.

By working together, we will make certain that the all important initialminutes and hours immediately after a child’s kidnapping are not wasted, because that time could mean the difference between life and death of someone’s precious child.

You can learn more about AMBER Alert at their website (http://www.amberalert.gov/).