In an effort to introduce readers to Indiana's Amber Alert System technology, this report will examine its source, users, funding, and relationship with the emergency warning system, sometimes called an emergency broadcast system. The history and criteria of the system will be examined, as well as the collaboration, sharing and financing of the programs. Local information will be discussed from the perspective of an area law enforcement officer. State-level information will be covered from the perspective of the director of the Indiana Amber Alert Clearinghouse in Indianapolis. It was just another day of play for nine-year-old Amber Hagerman when she was abducted while out on a bike ride in her neighborhood of Arlington, Texas. in January 1997 (State of Indiana Amber Alert Plan, 2010). After hearing a child's scream, a neighbor peered out the window of her home and saw a child being pulled off his bicycle and pushed into the front seat of a pickup truck. Aside from a basic description of the truck and its driver, the neighbor could provide no other information to police investigators called to the scene. Arlington police and Federal Bureau of Investigation agents interviewed other people near the crime scene. Nobody saw anything. Local radio and television stations broadcast news of the kidnapping, and an avid search for Amber ensued. Four days later Amber's body was found in a drainage ditch four miles from the site of the initial abduction. They had cut her throat. The Amber Hagerman kidnapping and murder case remains unsolved to this day (State of Indiana Amber Alert Plan, 2010). This event prompted an Arlington citizen to contact a radio station in Dallas, Texas, suggesting that child abductions be broadcast. . middle of paper......CitedAmber Alert Brochure, (2010). Article retrieved July 8, 2010, from http://www.in.govFederal Communications Commission, (2010). The emergency alert system. Article retrieved July 28, 2010, from http://www.fcc.gov General Assembly for the State of Indiana, (1999). House Bill No. 1869. Article retrieved June 30, 2010, from http://www.in.govMoore, L., (2010). Amber Alert Program Technology. Article retrieved July 8, 2010, from http://www.policyarchive.orgState of Indiana Amber Alert Plan, (2010). Article retrieved on June 30, 2010 from http://www.amberalertindiana.comTrilithic, (2010). Status of the common alert protocol. Article retrieved July 28, 2010, from http://www.trilithic.comUnited States Department of Justice, (2010). Technology standards and guidelines. Article retrieved July 8, 2010, from http://www.amberalert.gov