By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter
CHEHALIS – Lewis County 911 Communications is inviting the public to join them tomorrow as they focus on improving what they and parents can do in cases of missing kids.
The county department plans to become certified by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, with dispatchers undergoing training to promote swift and decisive responses in the critical early stages of incidents, according to an announcement.
A spokesperson for the local 911 center Laura Hanson says personnel will have educational materials available tomorrow morning at 10 a.m. when the Board of Lewis County Commissioners proclaims May 25 National Missing Children’s Day in Lewis County. That takes place on the second floor of the Historic Courthouse in Main Street in Chehalis.
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children is a private organization created in 1984 in part to help police provide a nationwide resource center and clearinghouse with information about missing children.
Among those on Washington state’s missing children list are Kayla Croft-Payne, who was 18 and living outside Chehalis when she was reported missing on May 5, 2010 and Lindsey Baum, 10, who was last seen June 26, 2009, when she left a friend’s house in McCleary to walk home and never arrived.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter
Thank you, Sharyn, for the take25.org link 🙂