
School Missing Student Procedures
According to FBI’s most recent National Crime Information Center (NCIC) 0ver 440,000 children under the age of 18 were reported in NCIC as missing in the United States in 2016. SOURCE. Fortunately, over 90% of them are found or return home safely. But, even with that statistic, one missing child is too many. For special needs children, especially those who are autistic, the risk of going missing is even higher. A 2012 article in Pediatrics reported that nearly half of familie