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Presentation to: West Virginia Board of Education Superintendent’s Leadership Institute. Amber Vision – June 25, 2010. 800,000 CHILDREN ARE REPORTED MISSING EACH YEAR …. One child every 40 seconds …. ≈500 AMBER Alerts per year 10 abducted children are murdered each month
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Presentation to: West Virginia Board of Education Superintendent’s Leadership Institute Amber Vision – June 25, 2010
800,000 CHILDREN ARE REPORTED MISSING EACH YEAR • …. One child every 40seconds • …. ≈500 AMBER Alerts per year • 10 abducted children are murdered each month • 74%of abducted children who are murdered are dead within three hours of the abduction • After the 1st hour, more than 40%of the abducted children are dead • “One of the most important tools for law enforcement to use in the case of a missing child is an up-to-date, good quality photograph.” • What about the other 799,500 reports? • Statistics and quotation from: National Center for Missing and Exploited Children Amber Vision – June 25, 2010
AmberVision works with the existingAMBER AlertSystem andhas been developed to address these key considerations of law enforcement when dealing with a missing or abducted child situation. • Speed. Time to issue the alert information is critical. • Provide a high quality photoof the child to aid in recognition. • Initiate local alerts when AMBER Alert is not warranted Amber Vision – June 25, 2010
AmberVision is a unique program: • Provides easy and fast entry of enrollment information to parents • Provides secure storage of information • Provides access to pictures including both a 2D and 3D image of the child along with the child’s description • Providesnotifications to law enforcement, media outlets and the general public immediately upon release by the AMBER Alert Coordinator or by local law enforcement • Provides biometric verification of identity to local law enforcement Amber Vision – June 25, 2010
AmberVision Enrollment AmberVision enrollment is on-line and available to any parent in North America Enrollment can be done anytime on theAmberVisionwebsite at www.ambervision.org • Photo images are uploaded annually by the parents • Parents receive a username and password for access • Parents receive a file of all enrollment data that may be stored on home computers, laptop computers, portable USB drives and PDAs. Amber Vision – June 25, 2010
AmberVision Database Security • Redundant servers guaranteeing 99.9% uptime • Servers are protected • Network firewall • Application firewall • Anti-virus firewall • Intrusion protection • Secure Socket Layer (SSL) using 256 bit encryption • No financial data is stored • Data Center is physically protected • 24/7 video surveillance • Security breach alarms • Biometric thumb print scanner at every entryway Amber Vision – June 25, 2010
AmberVision Database Access • AmberVision child data and images are accessible by username and password issued to: • Parent/ Legal Guardian • Local Law Enforcement • AMBER Alert Coordinator • AmberVision creates a 3D animated avatar rendered from the child’s photograph: • to aid in recognition from off angles. • to improve the performance of facial recognition biometric software. • a copy is included in the enrollment confirmation and is available for personal use. Amber Vision – June 25, 2010
AmberVision Subscriber Benefits to LE • Local law enforcement agencies receive a username and password to access the system and issue local alerts. • Notification lists are pre-programmed for immediate access and issue. • Law enforcement personnel • Other law enforcement agencies • Education personnel • Parents and other citizens • Facial recognition identification software for smart phones and in-car computers is provided at no charge. • Officers in the field can use a camera in the smartphone or car to send a photo of a suspected missing child to the database for comparison to the image of a missing child that is active in AmberVision. • Image is transmitted to AmberVision via wireless network • System completes comparison and returns a scored result to the officer in less than 60 seconds to aid in decision making. Amber Vision – June 25, 2010
AmberVision Subscriber Program…….for safer communities • A school may subscribe to AmberVision at no cost agreeing to: • Send enrollment information home with students. • Manage the distribution of vouchers • Provide access to a web-enabled computer • School receives no charge vouchers for all students in the school lunch program • Parents enroll information annually online and pay $11.99 by credit card • [FREE in the State of West Virginia] • Receive enrollment Form • 3D Avatar • Username and password • School receives 50% of enrollment revenues to be used as they determine. • Local law enforcement receives facial recognition software and username and password for jurisdiction. • Local alert notification capability • State AMBER Alert Coordinator receives username and password for immediate access to information. Amber Vision – June 25, 2010
AmberVision Additional Future Capability AmberVision technology can be implemented in other areas of need including: • Silver Alerts • Other Missing Children (non-AMBER Alert) • Missing Persons • Community Emergencies/Natural Disasters • Law Enforcement Applications Amber Vision – June 25, 2010
AmberVisionProgram Benefits Summary • Improved student safety • Faster alert notifications for AMBER Alert • Adds photograph and other information • Ability to issue local missing child alerts • Provides biometric identification tools to LE • Provided at no cost to families in need and at high risk • Increases communication between schools and parents • Returns revenue to school system • Provides capability to add additional functionality Amber Vision – June 25, 2010
West Virginia: Integrated with AmberVision • Unless parents decide to opt out of the program, all West Virginia children in public schools will be registered with Ambervision using their school directory info. • Securlinx, our Ambervision partner, can ensure that student photos will be correctly matched with directory info as long as they have two points of reference. • As such, schools and counties will be asked to require their photographers to provide digitized copies of student photos with the child’s name and birthday. • Schools will provide the photo/name/DOB to counties who will then release the information to Securlinx to be integrated into the Ambervision system free of charge! • This new system will ensure that the burden of work shifts from the schools and counties to our Ambervision partner, Securlinx.
AmberVision Summary Amber Vision – June 25, 2010
AmberVisionSummary Amber Vision – June 25, 2010
On behalf of AmberVisionTMand the children of West Virginia THANK YOU AmberVisionTM trade-mark is owned by SecurLinx Integration Software