37-10-203 - Formal missing child report Reports to law enforcement agencies.
37-10-203. Formal missing child report Reports to law enforcement agencies.
Every law enforcement officer receiving information from a parent or any source that it deems creditable shall prepare a formal missing child report and transmit a copy thereof immediately to the Tennessee bureau of investigation by computer pursuant to title 38, chapter 10, or in the absence of a computer terminal, by mail. A law enforcement agency reporting a missing child is further required to enter or cause to be entered the report of the missing child into the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) within two (2) hours of the receipt of the initial missing child report. The Tennessee bureau of investigation shall distribute the report among all law enforcement agencies in Tennessee or to any interstate and federal agencies that it may believe would be of assistance in locating the missing child.
[Acts 1985, ch. 158, § 3; 2009, ch. 76, § 1.]