Sofía Alert: how the search program for children and missing adolescents works

The initiative was published in the Official Journal and will operate under the Federal Missing and Missing Persons Search System (SIFEBU) created in 2016. During its presentation, Patricia Bullrich, Minister of Security, badured that "It is a search for missing children system that instantly disseminates information to reach more people in less time and give more hope to the family. "

As stated by the Ministry of Security, the program aims to "provide research units, conceptual criteria and technical tools necessary for the use of this resource".

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"It is necessary to implement a rapid alert system in Argentina, to constitute a mechanism for the correct and urgent dissemination of the corresponding information on the most serious cases of disappearance"they added.

For its presentation, the program "was supported by the International Center for Missing and Exploited Children – ICMEC-, with whom a cooperation agreement was signed in 2016, as a member of the Global Network of the said International Organization, with 32 other countries ".

Why Sofia?

"Sofia Alert" is the local version of "Amber alert" used in more than 40 countries and named in honor of Amber Hagerman, a girl disappeared and was murdered in Texas, United States, in 1996. In our country, the name of Sofía Herrera has been chosen, the three-year-old girl disappeared in a campsite in Rio Grande, at Tierra del Fuego, in September 2008.

This program "Its purpose is to reduce the violation of the rights of missing children "It will therefore attempt to "provide the national government with an adequate tool to respond quickly and effectively," as stated in the ministry's resolution.

This tool immediately broadcasts the image of missing people on mobile devices, mbad media and social networks, so that information reaches more people in less time. For this reason, the ministry signed an agreement with the social network Facebook to broadcast the alerts there, as well as on other social networks and Internet search engines.