Texas Center for the Missing, The Heidi Search Center & the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children & Clear Channel ...
May 25 2017 - 12:15PM
Business Wire
Images of local missing Texas children will
appear on digital billboards across Texas beginning May 25,
2017
Today the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children®
(NCMEC) Texas Center for the Missing (TCM) and Clear Channel
Outdoor Americas (CCOA) (NYSE:CCO), subsidiary of iHeartMedia Inc.,
in cooperation with the Heidi Search Center in San Antonio,
participated in press events throughout major Texas markets to
launch a new digital billboard campaign calling attention to the
ongoing searches for local missing children. Some families of
missing children, along with local law enforcement working these
unsolved cases, spoke at press events throughout the state today
and urged the public to share any information they have regarding
the disappearance or whereabouts of these children by calling
1.800.THE.LOST (1.800.843.5678).
This Smart News Release features multimedia.
View the full release here:
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20170525005780/en/
The search continues for Maria Elizalde
and others missing from the Texas area in just the last few years.
(Photo: Business Wire)
Timed to begin with National Missing Children’s Day (May 25),
and running through June, CCOA will display images of missing
children from San Antonio, Dallas, El Paso, and Houston, Texas on
the company’s digital billboards across the state. Radio public
service announcements will also be aired on iHeart Media radio
stations throughout Texas highlighting the different missing
children cases for Houston, San Antonio, Dallas and El Paso.
The country is in the midst of a persistent missing and
exploited children crisis nationwide, with the National Crime
Information Center (NCIC) reporting over 465,676 entries for
missing children in 2016. Specifically, the Texas Department of
Public Safety Missing Persons Clearinghouse received 57,389
missing person reports in 2015, 45,027 of which were
juveniles.
But despite those latest stats, there’s encouraging news in the
ongoing search for missing children. Between 2011-2015, more than
4,000 children that had been reported to NCMEC were
recovered after they were missing for more than six months.
The vast majority of them were recovered alive. Of those, more than
400 kids had been missing more than five years. More
than 200 of those kids were missing more than 10
years and 56 kids missing more than 20 years came
home!
According to NCMEC, photos are one of the most vital tools for
law enforcement when searching for a missing child, and have the
power to produce leads that can help law enforcement give families’
answers and help safely recover children. The new billboard
campaign enables NCMEC and TCM to reach a broad audience across
Texas by distributing photos of missing children in targeted areas
that can aid law enforcement with a search.
“We know that photos bring missing children home and we rely on
our partners like Clear Channel Outdoor Americas to help us in our
mission. We are grateful to them for the continued support to find
missing children and helping to reunite them with their families,”
Beth Albert, TCM, CEO, said.
“Public safety, and child safety in particular, remains a core
tenet of our corporate social responsibility efforts,” said
Michelle Costa, regional president, CCOA-Southern. “Our digital
billboards have the ability to reach passersby in high-traffic
areas as they are out and about. We hope our efforts can play a
role in reuniting these children with their families.”
For regional missing children alerts
http://www.missingkids.com/RSS
About Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings, Inc.
Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings, Inc., (NYSE:CCO) is one of the
world’s largest outdoor advertising companies, with over 590,000
displays in 35 countries across five continents, including 43 of
the 50 largest markets in the United States. Clear Channel Outdoor
Holdings offers many types of displays across its global platform
to meet the advertising needs of its customers. This includes a
growing digital platform that now offers more than 1,100 digital
billboards across 27 markets in the United States. Clear Channel
Outdoor Holdings’ International segment operates in 19 countries
across Asia and Europe in a wide variety of formats. More
information is available
at www.clearchanneloutdoor.com and www.clearchannelinternational.com.
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Clear Channel OutdoorJason D. King,
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