2022 Delaware Code
Title 11 - Crimes and Criminal Procedure
Chapter 85. STATE BUREAU OF IDENTIFICATION
Subchapter VII. Gold Alert Program for Certain Missing Persons
§ 8580. Definitions.

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11 DE Code § 8580 (2022)
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§ 8580. Definitions.

The following words, terms, and phrases when used in this subchapter have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:

(1) “ACIM Alert Program” or “ACIM” means “A Child is Missing Alert Program”. The ACIM Alert Program is a national rapid-response communication network that offers free assistance to law-enforcement agencies to aid in the recovery, identity, or apprehension of missing persons through the use of immediate public notification and dissemination of information via telephone in a targeted community.

(2) “Gold Alert Program” or “Program” means the procedures used to aid in the identification and location of a missing person as defined under paragraphs (4), (5), and (6) of this section. Gold Alerts may be local, regional, or statewide. The initial decision to issue a local Gold Alert is at the discretion of the investigating law-enforcement agency.

(3) “Investigating law-enforcement agency” means the law-enforcement agency which has primary jurisdiction in the area in which a missing person complaint has been filed.

(4) “Missing person with a disability” means a person:

a. Whose whereabouts are unknown;

b. Whose domicile at the time that the person is reported missing is Delaware;

c. Who has a disability; and,

d. Whose disappearance poses a credible threat to the health or safety of the person, as determined by the investigating law-enforcement agency.

(5) “Missing senior citizen” means a person:

a. Whose whereabouts are unknown;

b. Whose domicile at the time that the person is reported is missing is Delaware;

c. Whose age at the time that the person is first reported missing is 60 years of age or older; and

d. Whose disappearance poses a credible threat to the health or safety of the person, as determined by the investigating law-enforcement agency.

(6) “Missing suicidal person” means a person:

a. Whose whereabouts are unknown;

b. Whose domicile at the time that the person is reported missing is Delaware;

c. Whose disappearance is voluntary; and

d. Whose statements, actions, or conduct indicate that the missing person may voluntarily cause or inflict harm on himself or herself, and whose disappearance poses a credible threat to the health or safety of the person, as determined by the investigating law-enforcement agency.

76 Del. Laws, c. 379, § 1;  70 Del. Laws, c. 186, § 1; 
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