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NEW YORK, Aug. 15 (UPI) -- New cellphone software would allow families in New York to instantly send police vital information when a child is missing, tenants' groups said.
Thirty thousand families in the city are to be picked by lottery this fall to receive the software, funded with $1.5 million from tenants' groups representing poor families, the New York Daily News reported Saturday.
"It's about time that in the 21st century that everybody that has a (cell phone) can transmit their children's information to the police department," tenant spokesman Reginald Bowman said. "Just like we text, just like we tweet."
When children disappear, the so-called AMBER Ready program would cut police time by getting photos, fingerprints and descriptions of height and weight to investigators quickly, Bowman said.
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