Establishes procedures for reporting and identifying missing persons in Mississippi, including DNA collection and submission to the National Missing.
The Missing Persons Reporting and Identification Act mandates that local law enforcement agencies accept reports of missing persons without delay and attempt to obtain DNA samples from the missing person or family members for submission to the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs). It requires local agencies to generate reports of missing persons within the NamUs if the person remains missing for five to fifteen days.
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