ATLANTA – The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children has a brand new option to alert folks to be looking out for lacking youngsters of their space.

The group has helped legislation enforcement throughout the nation discover greater than 450,000 lacking kids since 1994. One factor they do with all the kids is push their picture out to the general public as rapidly as doable. They’ve executed this by means of posters, billboards, social media, and now QR codes.

“It puts the most recent missing child images literally in the palm of your hand,” stated John Bischoff with the National Center of Missing and Exploited Children.

Just by scanning the QR code along with your cellular phone, you’ll be capable of see pictures of all of the lacking kids in your space.

“These kids are out there. They need our help. It just takes the right person to help them out,” stated Bischoff.

Bischoff says on any given day there are about 7,000 lacking kids within the U.S.

“It’s a scary number. These are kids where their families don’t know their whereabouts,” stated Bischoff.

Bischoff understands the significance of placing out footage of those kids, in hopes that somebody sees them or has details about them.

“We’d send out loads of printed posters just to keep engaged with the community to remind them this child is missing in your area,” stated Bischoff.

The QR code will get the pictures out quicker and allows you to see pictures of lacking kids inside 50 miles of your location.

I did it from Marietta and the pictures of 51 lacking kids popped up with their identify, age, how lengthy they’ve been lacking and the final place they had been seen. By clicking on a photograph, you may simply submit a tip or share the picture.

“We know someone is going to use this QR code. We know they’re going to recognize something. All it takes is one set of eyes to be a hero,” stated Bischoff.

The QR code was simply launched a few weeks in the past… Now the nationwide middle for lacking and exploited kids is engaged on partnerships to get the QR code on water bottles, chip luggage, storefronts, anyplace they will.

You can scan the QR code at: https://www.missingkids.org/blog/2023/new-posters-qr-code