§49-6-113. Clearinghouse Advisory Council; Members, Appointments and Expenses; Appointment, Duties and Compensation of Director; Annual Reports
(a) The Clearinghouse Advisory Council is continued as a body corporate and politic, constituting a public corporation and government instrumentality. The council shall consist of 11 members who are knowledgeable about and interested in issues relating to missing or exploited children, as follows: (1) Six members to be appointed by the Governor, with the advice […]
§49-6-101. Clearinghouse Function; State Police Requirements; Rule-Making
(a) The Missing Children Information Clearinghouse is established under the West Virginia State Police. The State Police: (1) Shall provide for the administration of the clearinghouse; and
§49-6-102. State Department of Education; Missing Children Program; Rule-Making
(a) The State Department of Education shall develop and administer a program for the location of missing children who may be enrolled in the West Virginia school system, including private schools, and for the reporting of children who may be missing or who may be unlawfully removed from schools. (b) The program shall include the […]
§49-6-103. Information to Clearinghouse; Definitions
(a) The Department of Health and Human Resources and every law-enforcement agency in West Virginia shall provide to the clearinghouse or another investigating law-enforcement agency any information that would assist in locating or identifying a missing child. (b) For purposes of this article: (1) “Missing and endangered child” means any missing child for which there […]
§49-6-104. Custodian Request for Information
(a) Upon written request made to a law-enforcement agency by the custodian of a missing child, the law-enforcement agency shall request from the clearinghouse information concerning the child that may aid the custodian in locating or identifying the child. (b) A law-enforcement agency to which a request has been made pursuant to subsection (a) of […]
§49-6-105. Missing Child Report Forms; Where Filed
(a) The clearinghouse shall distribute missing child and missing and endangered child report forms to law-enforcement agencies in the state and to the Department of Health and Human Resources. (b) A missing child or missing and endangered child report may be made to a law-enforcement agency in person or by telephone, or other indirect method […]