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An executive order in 2008 created Florida’s Silver Alert program and now law enforcement officers and senior advocates are asking the state legislature to make the program law. Because of the Silver Alert Program when a person suffering from mental illness or dementia is lost, highway signs and radio broadcasts issues alerts. Florida Department of Law Enforcement Commissioner Gerald Bailey says the program has helped find dozens of missing seniors.

“Some of those we can say were directly tied to being Silver Alerts, there maybe other, but we knew 43 the sheriff’s and chiefs reported back we knew they were spotted because of a highway sign and a citizen called and said they had seen the particular vehicle,” said Bailey.

The Silver Alert program is still operating but without being written into the Florida Statutes it could be ended or changed any day.