Missing Children

National Center for Missing & Exploited Children: Texas

Clearinghouses

Texas Department of Public Safety Special Crimes Services Missing Persons Clearinghouse P.O. Box 4087 Austin, TX 78773-0422 ((512) 424-5074 (800) 346-3243 (in-state only) FAX: (512) 424?2885

Non-profit Missing Children Organizations

Heidi Search Center "The Heidi Search Center will assist families, communities, and law enforcement throughout the United States in locating and recovering missing children". Laura Recovery Center Foundation This organization has produced a manual for parents of missing and abducted children. The manual "describes how to conduct a massive, citizen directed, effort to recover a missing child". The foundation stresses "The Triangle of Trust" a cooperative effort between the community, law enforcement and the family. The Lost Children's Network 1-214-691-LOST (5678), email. The mission of the Lost Children's Network is to take "the search to millions of homes".

Custody & Parental Abduction

Family Code: Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act Scroll down to Chapter 152 Unifo Uniform parentage Act-Paternity Criminal Code Interference with Custody Harboring a Runaway Child International Child Abduction Measures to Prevent International Parental Child Abduction Abduction Rist factors Abduction Prevention Measures