A. The procedures for initiating an AMBER alert pursuant to the AMBER Alert Law are available to all law enforcement agencies in New Mexico; provided that nothing in that law prohibits a local law enforcement agency from developing and implementing its own similar notification plan; provided further that nothing in that act supercedes a provision or procedure in such a local notification plan.
B. If a law enforcement agency that has not developed and implemented its own similar plan desires that an AMBER alert be declared, it shall notify the authorized requester. The authorized requester shall declare an AMBER alert if, after evaluating the information, the authorized requester believes that the criteria for declaring an alert has been satisfied.
C. If an AMBER alert is initiated and there is information that the child's abductor may be traveling or has traveled across state lines, the authorized requester shall notify the other states or the Republic of Mexico in order for those governments to issue an alert. The state police shall work with all bordering states and the Republic of Mexico in order to establish agreements to carry out regional alerts.
History: Laws 2003, ch. 93, § 4.
Effective dates. — Laws 2003, ch. 93, § 6 made Laws 2003, ch. 93, § 4 effective April 1, 2003.
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