Amber Alert
In September, 2005 Governor Ehrlich established the Sex Offenders Compliance and Enforcement in Maryland (SOCEM) initiative. An important component of this initiative is the Amber Alert system. The Governor has requested that all State provided cellular telephones, that are equipped for text messaging, also be programmed to receive Amber Alert messages. Individuals may also wish to consider enable their mobile phones to receive Amber Alerts using a simple procedure established by the Cellular Telephone Industry Association.
The Cellular Telephone Industry Association (CITA) has established a Website to facilitate activation. Amber Alert service is provided at no cost to the State.
It takes approximately two minutes per telephone to establish this feature.
The activation process is:
- Go to the website
- Enter the cellular telephone number
- Click on accept the terms and conditions
- Click on create subscription
- Enter a password. It will accept the last four digits of the telephone number, which is easy to remember. You may use any other password that you prefer.
- Enter a ZIP code for Maryland. Any Maryland ZIP code will provide statewide Amber Alert notification. You may enter up to five ZIP codes. Consider adding adjacent jurisdictions with the four remaining ZIP code fields. For example: 20036 Washington D.C., 22209 Virginia, 17101 Pennsylvania and 19801 Delaware.
- Click on submit.
You should receive activation confirmation on your cellular telephone.
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