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Sex trafficking is widespread and labeling our girls as runaways then
closing their case is not a solution to a serious problem. Each case
must be fully investigated with a sense of urgency every time.

The time has long passed for us to sound the alarm for our missing
loved ones. When 1 or 10 girls or any loved one go missing on our land,
in our country, and our nation’s capital, we cannot afford to wait for
mainstream media coverage. We are their coverage, their voice, their
alarm, we are their prayer, and they are counting on us. We must work
tirelessly to ensure widespread dissemination and their safe return.

Requires police agencies to take reports of missing adults whenever the adult is reported to be missing – PASSED!

BILL NUMBER: S6437A

TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the executive law, in relation to requiring police agencies to take reports of missing adults whenever the adult is reported to be missing.

PURPOSE:

To amend the executive law in relation to requiring police agencies to take reports of missing adults whenever the adult is reported to be missing.

SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS :

Section 1 sets forth that this act shall be known and may be cited as “Lamont Dottin’s law”.

Section 2 provides if a police agency receives a report that an adult person is missing from his or her ordinary place of residence who cannot be located by a person whose relationship with such adult person would place them in a position to have knowledge of the missing person’s whereabouts, and that such missing person: has a proven disability, may be in physical danger, is missing after a catastrophe, may have disappeared involuntarily, or is missing under circumstances where there is a reasonable concern for his or her safety (and such missing adult person does not qualify as a missing child or vulnerable adult pursuant to the executive law), the police agency shall collect information necessary to file an electronic report and submit such electronic report to the National Crime Information Center Register.

Section 3 provides this act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall have become a law.

EXISTING LAW :

Police agencies are not currently required to take and submit reports of missing adults under the conditions described in this legislation.

JUSTIFICATION :

Anita Fowler’s son, LaMont Dottin, was a freshman at Queens College (CUNY) when he disappeared on October 18, 1995 after leaving his grandmother’s house to mail a package to his mother, who was in California. Dr. Fowler returned immediately to New York and began searching for her son. She tried to report him as missing, but due to police regulations she was unable to file a report until November 13, 1995. Dr. Fowler searched for five years, when she found that her son’s body was found six days after she reported him as missing and lay unidentified in a grave at Potter’s Field since February 1996.

This legislation seeks to prevent future confusion and heartache by requiring law enforcement to take a report whenever a person is reported missing and send such report to the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) Register.

This will create a permanent record of all reports of missing persons. This will assist law enforcement in searching for such person if it is determined subsequent that such person is indeed missing. Further, in the event the missing person is located in either a hospital or a morgue, this registry will assist in identifying the person and will reunite the missing person with his or her family or, if the person is deceased, it will help the family some semblance of closure.

The previous version of this bill was vetoed by the governor, citing compliance concerns with the NCIC database because reports were to be filed even when circumstances did not indicate a missing adult was in danger. This version of the bill delineates the several situations a report shall be filed, including but not limited to physical danger, mirroring the parameters of the NCIC database.

These are people behind the passage of this law plus countless of people who matched on numerous occasions to bring the Lamont Dottin’s Law in reality. Thank you all.

PROPOSED LEGISLATION:
The “Lamont Dottin’s law; relates to reporting duties with respect to missing children and adults; establishes uniform standards for searching for missing persons; expands state databanks to approach not only the problem of missing children but missing adults as well; requires police departments to establish a trained missing person specialist.

DOING SO WILL….

• Expand the criteria used to determine when to launch an immediate investigation into the whereabouts of a missing person.
• Remove the age limit and review missing person reports on a case-by-case basis and confirm to the families, who deserve to know, that their loved ones are remembered and not forgotten.
• Bridge the gaps that currently exist in the process and rob the hope from the families with missing loved.
• Eliminate the “Myths” that every missing person 21 years old is a runaway or are far more likely to have chosen to be absent themselves from their home.
• Establish a deliberate and methodical process that is proactive and transparent when it comes to searching for a missing loved one.

BACKGROUND:
La Mont Dottin disappeared from St. Albans, New York, October 16, 1995. His body was found floating in the East Harlem River six days later and buried in pauper’s grave in potter’s field. As a result of existing law, a variety of unfortunate and tragic circumstance, this was not known to his family and it was not until four years later and years of searching that they were was able to exhume his body and give him a proper burial.

HISTORY:

1. In 1983, President Ronald Reagan proclaimed May 25 as National Missing Children’s Day. Each year the Department of Justice (DOJ) commemorates Missing Children’s Day with a ceremony honoring the heroic and exemplary efforts of agencies, organizations, and individuals to protect children.
2. 1999 – Campus Safety Act Established
3. 2003 – Suzanne Law- Suzanne’s laws is a federal law concerning missing persons signed into law by President Bush as part of the national “Amber Alert”. The law provides that there shall be no waiting period before a law enforcement agency initiates an investigation of a missing person under the age of twenty one and reports the missing person to the National Crime Information Center of the Department of Justice. The bill also requires local authorities to notify the National Crime Information Center immediately if someone between the ages of 18 and 21 goes missing.

DETROIT — Teleka Patrick, a missing medical resident, was stalking gospel singer Marvin Sapp prior to her disappearance, according to an area news station.

Grand Rapids, Mich.-based WOOD-TV reported late Thursday that Sapp filed for a personal protection order in Kent County in September. In the court filing, Sapp stated that Patrick, 30, had been referring to him as her husband and had moved from California to western Michigan to join his church, the Lighthouse Full Light Center Church in Grand Rapids.

Her family had previously stated that she decided to attend Kalamazoo’s Western Michigan University for its residential psychiatry program.

Sapp said Patrick had contacted his three children and had been to his home, and that he had “over 400 page(s) of correspondence from her to which I have never responded.” He added that Patrick’s stalking had gone on for at least a year prior to her moving to Michigan.

“Throughout my career, my family and I have fallen victim to inappropriate attempts to contact me by several unknown individuals,” Sapp said in a statement to the TV station Thursday. “As a father of three and pastor of one of the largest congregations in west Michigan, I cannot take this kind of obsessive attention lightly. Given these previous acts, I have taken several security measures, which have included obtaining a protective order to ensure our safety.”

La Mont D. Dottin was a freshman at Queens College when he disappeared Oct. 18, 1995 after leaving his grandmother’s Hollis home to mail a package to his mother, Arnita Fowler, in California.

Ms. Fowler returned immediately to New York and tried in vain to report her son missing but, due to police rules at the time, she was not able to do so. It wasn’t until November 13, 1995, that La Mont had been missing long enough for police to consider him a missing person.

Forced to become a one woman search team for four years, Ms. Fowler discovered that her son’s body was found six days after she reported him missing in 1995 and laid unidentified in a city morgue, until February 1996 at which time La Mont was buried in a pauper’s grave in Potter’s Field on Hart Island. The parents of La Mont was never told of this until September 1999, four years later.

A year after giving their son, La Mont, a proper burial, the family established “The La Mont Dottin Foundation” to serve as an information clearing house committed to assist other families in their search for missing loved ones. The goal of the foundation is to ensure that such families do not endure the same painful journey and to push for legislation reform of the Missing Persons Unit.

The foundation will also provide scholarships to deserving high school seniors majoring in technology and has submitted a proposal to establish a community base technology training cernter that will allow LaMont’s passion for computers to be realized through lives of youth with the same passion.

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Age: 22 Years
Height: 5’1′
Weight: 120 lbs
Hair Color: Black / Logn
Race: Indian
Gender: Female
Eye Color: Dark Brown

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On Nov. 7, 2013, 28-year-old Jasper, Texas resident Alfred Wright went missing. His body was found weeks later by volunteer searchers frustrated that local law enforcement seemed to have given up. But two autopsies later, there are few answers about what happened to Wright – and now the Department of Justice has agreed to look into the case.

Wright, a physical therapist whose brother Savion was a finalist on the television show “American Idol,” was last seen at a grocery store in Sabine County, according to Chuck Foreman, a private investigator hired by Wright’s family. Foreman says that Wright called his wife and parents to say that his truck had broken down, but when his parents came to pick him up, he was gone.

Local police searched for Wright, a married father-of-two, for only four days, and CBS affiliate KSLA reports that Sheriff Tom Maddox said he didn’t suspect foul play. At the time of his disappearance, Wright was under indictment for allegedly embezzling money when he worked at a bank while attending college in Tennessee.

“They kept saying that it was staged, that he was on the run,” Foreman told CBS News’ Crimesider.

But Wright wasn’t on the run. On Nov. 25, a group of church volunteers found Wright’s body. According to Foreman, Wright was found wearing just his boxer shorts, two shoes and one sock. He says Wright’s scrubs were found on a barbed wire fence nearby. KSLA reports that Wright was found just 150 yards from where sheriff’s deputies originally set up their command post for the search. One of the men who found the body told the station that Wright’s eyes were missing and so was part of his ear.

Foreman, who is the president of the Center for Search and Investigation, a Texas-based group that helps search for missing children, says that local police immediately blamed drugs for Wright’s death, and a county autopsy reportedly revealed the presence of cocaine and meth in his system.

“They kept saying it was drug-induced behavior,” Foreman says. “But nobody ever witnessed him doing drugs, and he has no drug-related criminal history.”

Sheriff Maddox did not return Crimesider’s call for comment on the case.

The autopsy called Wright’s death an accident, but his family didn’t buy it. They commissioned a second autopsy by Dr. Lee Ann Grossberg who announced at a news conference that she has “a high index of suspicion that this is a homicide.”

“This has been the worst investigation I’ve ever seen in my life,” said Foreman, an Army Special Operations veteran. “The sheriff’s department never searched his truck, they never did a neighborhood canvas.”

In fact, Foreman says that it was his own neighborhood canvas that eventually led to the discovery of Wright’s body. Foreman says that when he knocked on the door of a man who owned about 100 acres of land near the store where Wright was last seen, the man told him police had never asked to search his property. Volunteers did, and they found Wright.

Desperate for answers, the Wright family reached out to Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee (D-Texas) for help. On January 23, Lee wrote to the Department of Justice asking them to investigate Wright’s death. They agreed, and the U.S. Attorney’s office in Texas’ Eastern District told Crimesider that they are “reviewing the investigation.”

One of Rep. Lee’s spokespeople told Crimesider that Lee took interest in the case, in part, because of the history of racial violence in Jasper. In 1998, 49-year-old Robert Byrd was killed near the town after three white men tied him to the back of their truck and dragged him for more than three miles until his head came off.

Wright’s sister told KSLA that she believes her brother was kidnapped, tortured and dumped. A $30,000 reward for information leading to a conviction has been offered in the case.

CNN reported that Durkin’s body was found inside a railroad tunnel in central Rome. A missing U.S. student who was taking part in a study abroad program in Italy has been found dead.

John Durkin, a student at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, disappeared two days ago while he was in Rome. His body was found, but details surrounding his death have not been released.

“It is with much sadness that the Durkin family informs you of the loss of John Nolen Durkin and thanks everyone for their support during the past few days.” the family said in a statement posted on the Bates website.

Durkin, 21, was an economics major from Rye Beach, N.H. He was one of six Bates students taking part in a study abroad program through Trinity College in Connecticut when he disappeared.

He had been in Rome for a little more than a month as part of a semester-long program, family spokesman Tom Durkin told CNN.

Two days ago, John Durkin went to a bar with a group of friends, left alone, and never returned, the spokesman Tom Durkin told CNN.

His body was found inside a railroad tunnel in central Rome, says CNN.

Durkin was a junior and a linebacker on the Bates football team.

“John’s commitment to excellence in all phases of his life was inspirational to the other members of the squad and a major factor in the team’s success over the past three years,” said Bates head football coach Mark Harriman in a statement.

Carly “Charli” Scott’s mother told police on Monday that her daughter was missing. Scott, 27 and five months’ pregnant, disappeared after she left her sister’s home in the Haiku area of Maui on Sunday night, according to Maui police.

Family members said she left to help a former boyfriend whose car had broken down, The Maui News reports.

Scott’s silver 1997 Toyota 4Runner was completely gutted by fire and was found in Haiku’s Peahi area.

On Thursday, “possible evidence,” was discovered by an individual who was part of a private search party, said the Maui Police Department. Officials did not provide additional information and said the evidence “was recovered by police for further investigation.”

Carly’s former boyfriend, Steven Capobianco, told Hawaii News Now that she picked him up Sunday night and drove him to Keanae — which was several dozen miles away — so he could fix his truck.

Her dog Nala — which was later found in the nearby community of Nahiku according to The Maui News — was with her when she picked him up, he said.

Capobianco, 24, said he fixed his truck and Scott drove behind him to Haiku, but he lost sight of her SUV at some point.

He said he assumed she arrived safely at her destination.

“I sent her a text that said, ‘Thank you’ but I figured she was working, that’s why she didn’t get back to me right away,” he told Hawaii News Now. “It wasn’t until the cops showed up at my house at 5:30 in the morning the next day that I realized something was wrong.”

Capobianco said police questioned him and administered a polygraph test, which he was told he failed. He told Hawaii News Now that he “absolutely” did not hurt Scott.

“I’m honestly not convinced I failed, I think they might have just said that as a tactic,” he said. “But I really don’t know.”

Police have not made any arrests or named any suspects.

Capobianco said he and Scott have been broken up for several years but remained friends and “occasionally hooked up.” He said he believes he’s the father of her baby but doesn’t know for sure.

On Saturday morning, Scott’s sister, Fiona Elyse McKenna Wais, continued to post updates about the search effort on Facebook.

“Please remember any evidence found needs to be treated like a crime scene, avoid entering the area, take pictures and call the police immediately,” she said. “Please be careful with anything found of interest, it could be what finds my sister!”