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Section 2 - Central Register; Included Information

MA Gen L ch 22a § 2 (2019) (N/A)
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Section 2. The director, in consultation with the colonel of state police, through electronic data processing and related procedures, shall establish a statewide central register containing all necessary and available identifying information of a missing child in the commonwealth. The register shall include the same information required by 42 U.S.C. section 5780 and may include: (i) the missing child's identifying marks; (ii) prosthetics or surgical implants; (iii) a photograph; (iv) a description of the missing child's clothing; (v) items that might be with the missing child; (vi) reasons why the reporting person believes that the child is missing; (vii) circumstances that indicate the disappearance was involuntary; (viii) circumstances that indicate the missing child may be at risk of injury or death; (ix) the means of transportation of the missing person; (x) the missing child's fingerprints; and (xi) the missing child's blood type. The director may use existing data processing and data communications systems of the criminal justice information system.

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Section 2 - Central Register; Included Information