2020 Oklahoma Statutes
Title 63. Public Health and Safety
§63-1-1990.5. Activation of silver alert procedure - Procedure.
A. A silver alert shall be activated if a local law enforcement agency:
1. Receives notice of a missing senior citizen;
2. Verifies that at the time the senior citizen is reported missing:
- a.the person reported missing is sixty (60) years of age or older,
- b.the location of the senior citizen is unknown, or
- c.the senior citizen has dementia or other cognitive impairment;
3. Determines that the disappearance of the senior citizen poses a credible threat to the health and safety of the senior citizen; and
4. Determines that information which may assist in the safe recovery of the missing senior citizen is available.
B. The local law enforcement agency shall:
1. Require the family or legal guardian of the missing senior citizen to provide documentation of the impaired mental condition of the senior citizen;
2. Determine identifying information about the missing senior citizen and any other information which might be useful to the general public in the safe recovery of the missing senior citizen; and
3. Report the individual through the national crime information center immediately upon the issuance of a silver alert.
Added by Laws 2009, c. 50, § 5, eff. Nov. 1, 2009.
