Kan. Stat. § 75-754a

Current through 2024 Session Acts Chapter 111 and 2024 Special Session Acts Chapter 4
Section 75-754a - [Kansas purple alert plan]
(a) There is hereby established the Kansas purple alert plan to provide public notice of a missing individual with intellectual or developmental disabilities. The Kansas purple alert plan shall be established and implemented by the office of the attorney general, in collaboration with the Kansas bureau of investigation, Kansas highway patrol, local law enforcement agencies and other public and private agencies and organizations.
(b) Under the Kansas purple alert plan, public notice of a missing individual may promptly be broadcast and a search may be timely undertaken with the cooperation of local law enforcement, news media and the general public in order to locate such individual in time to avoid serious harm or death if such individual:
(1) Is 18 years of age or older;
(2) has been diagnosed with an intellectual disability;
(3) whose whereabouts are unknown;
(4) is believed to be in imminent danger of serious bodily injury or death because of such disability; and
(5) is believed to be unable to return to safety without assistance.

K.S.A. 75-754a

Added by L. 2024, ch. 106,§ 1, eff. 7/1/2024.