Mattie's Call
# Mattie's Call

Mattie's Call is an American law-enforcement-initiated public notification system to locate missing elderly, or otherwise disabled persons.

## History

The first version of the Mattie's Call was drafted in 1996. From 1996 to 2009, 127 Mattie's Calls had been triggered.

In 2004, radio stations and local law-enforcement agencies in the Atlanta, Georgia, area broadcast information about the elderly Mattie Moore missing from her home. Moore, a 67-year-old woman who had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, wandered away from her Atlanta home in April 2004 and was found dead 8 months later in a wood a few hundred meters from her home.

Mattie's Call was created by an act of the Georgia General Assembly in 2006. It is named after Mattie Moore.

## Description

Mattie's Call was patterned after the AMBER Alert system created to locate missing, or abducted children. It uses public-service announcements on radio stations, displays on publicly controlled signaling devices and transmissions to law-enforcement agencies in an attempt to locate the missing endangered person.

Mattie's Call is an example of a Silver Alert system to locate missing senior citizens.

