Current through 2024 Regular Session legislation effective June 6, 2024
Section 146.181 - Missing persons; police report; supplementary report(1) When a person is reported as missing to any city, county or state police agency, the agency, within 12 hours thereafter, shall enter into state and federal records maintained for that purpose, a report of the missing person in a format and according to procedures established by the authorities responsible respectively for the state and federal records.(2) The law enforcement agency to which the report is made: (a) May request from the person making the report information or material likely to be useful in identifying the missing person or the human remains of the missing person, including, but not limited to: (A) The name of the missing person and any alternative names the person uses;(B) The date of birth of the missing person;(C) A physical description of the missing person, including the height, weight, gender, race, eye color, current hair color and natural hair color of the missing person, any identifying marks on the missing person, any prosthetics used by, or surgical implants in, the missing person and any physical anomalies of the missing person;(D) The blood type of the missing person;(E) The driver license number of the missing person;(F) The Social Security number of the missing person;(G) A recent photograph of the missing person;(H) A description of the clothing the missing person is believed to have been wearing at the time the person disappeared;(I) A description of items that the missing person is believed to have had with the person at the time the person disappeared;(J) Telephone numbers and electronic mail addresses of the missing person;(K) The name and address of any school the missing person attends;(L) The name and address of any employer of the missing person;(M) The name and address of the physician, physician associate, naturopathic physician, nurse practitioner or dentist who provides health care services to the missing person;(N) A description of any vehicle that the missing person might have been driving or riding in when the person disappeared;(O) The reasons why the person making the missing person report believes the person is missing;(P) Any circumstances that indicate that the missing person may be at risk of injury or death;(Q) Any circumstances that may indicate that the disappearance is not voluntary;(R) Information about a known or possible abductor or a person who was last seen with the missing person; and(S) The date of the last contact with the missing person.(b) May request in writing from any dentist, denturist, physician, physician associate, naturopathic physician, nurse practitioner, optometrist or other medical practitioner possessing it such medical, dental or other physically descriptive information as is likely to be useful in identifying the missing person or the human remains of the missing person.(3) The law enforcement agency, upon obtaining information pursuant to subsection (2) of this section, shall make a supplementary entry of that information into the state and federal records described in subsection (1) of this section. The supplementary report shall be in a format and according to procedures established by the authorities responsible respectively for the state and federal records.Amended by 2024 Ch. 73,§ 40, eff. 6/6/2024.Amended by 2017 Ch. 356, § 16, eff. 1/1/2018.Amended by 2014 Ch. 45, § 25, eff. 7/1/2014.