O.C.G.A.
O.C.G.A. § 35-3-83 (2019)
Missing child reports
✓ O.C.G.A. — 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)
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Upon the filing of a police report by the parent, guardian, caretaker, governmental unit responsible for the child, or other person with legal custody of the child that a child is missing, the local law enforcement agency receiving such report shall notify all of its on-duty law enforcement officers of the existence of the missing child report, communicate the report to all other law enforcement agencies having jurisdiction in the county and all law enforcement agencies of jurisdictions geographically adjoining that of the local law enforcement agency, and transmit the report to the Missing Children Information Center.
History
Code 1981, § 35-3-83, enacted by Ga. L. 1986, p. 659, § 1; Ga. L. 2014, p. 481, § 1/SB 358.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 1
case, 2015–2015 · leading case: Hutchinson v. Whaley Et Al., 777 S.E.2d 251 (Ga. Ct. App. 2015).
Hutchinson v. Whaley Et Al., 777 S.E.2d 251 (Ga. Ct. App. 2015). “5 Hutchinson points to OCGA § 35-1-8 (a) (regarding the acquisition and preservation of information to assist in identifying deceased individuals) and OCGA § 35-3-83 (regarding missing child reports) as evidence that Defendants violated their duties to investigate.”
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