{"id":17832,"date":"2015-09-15T14:07:57","date_gmt":"2015-09-15T21:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/silver-alerts-begin-in-washington-to-find-missing-people-60-and-older\/"},"modified":"2016-10-21T15:50:32","modified_gmt":"2016-10-21T22:50:32","slug":"silver-alerts-begin-in-washington-to-find-missing-people-60-and-older","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/silver-alerts-begin-in-washington-to-find-missing-people-60-and-older\/","title":{"rendered":"Silver Alerts begin in Washington to find missing people 60 and older"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Law enforcement agencies in Washington have started using a new notification to alert the public of missing people who fit the criteria for a \u201cSilver Alert.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>On Sept. 10 the first \u201cSilver Alert\u201d was issued for Bryant Merrick after a report was taken by Issaquah Police Department. The alert went out at 9:30 a.m., and was posted on DOT digital billboards in three counties. Merrick was located by the Seattle Police Department on Sept. 11 and is safe.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>A Silver Alert will be activated when a missing person 60 years of age or older, suffering from a form of dementia, is not able to return to safety without assistance.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>When vehicle information is associated with the Silver Alert the state Department of Transportation highway signs and highway advisory radio messages will provide a brief description of the vehicle and license plate number.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>For more information on how to subscribe to Silver Alerts please go to the Washington State Patrol website at <a title=\"patrol\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wsp.wa.gov\/index.htm\" target=\"_self\">wsp.wa.gov\/index.htm<\/a>.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Law enforcement agencies in Washington have started using a new notification to alert the public of missing persons who fit the criteria for a \u201cSilver Alert.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-17832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17832"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17832"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=17832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}