HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 1985.12.12 - 11346December 12, 1985
Miscellaneous Resolution # 85389
BY: GENERAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE - John E. Olsen, Chairperson
RE: HOUSE BILL 4496 REQUIRING LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES TO EXPEDITE
INFORMATION ON CERTAIN MISSING PERSONS (SUPPORT)
TO THE OAKLAND COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
Mr. Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS, this bill would amend existing law to require law enforcement
agencies, after conducting a preliminary investigation, to report information immedi-
ately on certain missing persons; and
WHEREAS, the persons included in the mandate for expeditious reporting
would include children under age 17, physically or mentally handicapped persons,
a person who disappeared involuntarily, a person in the company of another
person under circumstances indicating he or she was in danger or a person
missing as the result of a catastrophe or accident which casued the loss of life;
and
WHEREAS, HB 4496 requires that the immediate reports be filed both with
the Law Enforcement Information Network (LEIN) and the National Crime Information
Center (NCIC); and
WHEREAS, this legislation was prompted because some parents of missing
children had complained of the lack of coordiantion between law enforcement
agencies regarding the sharing of information on missing children; and
WHEREAS, buoyed by the support of the Michigan State Police, Michigan
Sheriffs Association, the State Department of Mental Health and others, HB 4496
has passed the House of Representatives and is now in the Senate Judiciary
Committee.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of Commis-
sioners takes a position supporting HB 4496.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this resolution be sent to the
four State Senators from Oakland County.
Mr. Chairperson, on behalf of the General Government Committee, I move
the adoption of the foregoing resolution.
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Moved by Olsen supported by Perinoff the resolution be adopted.
AYES: Perinoff, Pernick,Price, Rewold, Skarritt, Webb, Wilcox, Caddell,
Calandro, Doyon, Fortino, Gosling, R. Kuhn, S. Kuhn, Lanni, Law, McConnell, McPherson,
Moffitt, Moore, Nelson, Olsen, Page. (23)
NAYS: None. (0)
A sufficient majority having voted therefor, the resolution was adopted.
STATE OF MICHIGAN)
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COUNTY OF OAKLAND)
I, Lynn D. Allen, Clerk of the County of Oakland and having a seal,
do hereby certify that I have compared the annexed copy of
Miscellaneous Resolution adopted by the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
at their meeting held on December 12, 1985.
with the orginial record thereof now remaining in my office, and
that it is a true and correct transcript therefrom, and of the
whole thereof.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the
seal of said County at Pontiac, Michigan
this 12th