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SAFETY
TIPS
- Teach
your child how to use the phone to call your home or office.
Make sure they know their full name, address and phone number
(including area code).
- Practice
making collect calls, tell your child you will always accept
collect calls and to call immediately should anything unusual
happen, or if anyone tells the child that you are dead or
don't love them anymore.
- Make
sure your child knows not to accept rides from strangers,
and to be alert against a stranger who suggests they go
off alone together for any reason, for example, to find
a lost puppy, etc.
- Tell
your child to let you know immediately if another adult
suggests keeping secrets from you.
- Never
leave your child alone in a car. Not even for a minute!
UTAH RADKIDS
Having a
Good Photo of Your Child
One
of the most important tools for law enforcement to use in the
case of a missing child is an up-to-date, good-quality photograph.
Below are some tips for parents and guardians regarding a photograph.
The photograph should be a recent, head-and-shoulders color
photograph of the child in which the face is clearly seen. It
should be of ”school-portrait” quality, and the background
should be plain or solid so it does not distract from the subject.
When possible the photograph should be in a digitized form,
and available on a compact disk (CD), as opposed to just a hard
copy. This minimizes the time necessary to scan, resize, and
make color corrects before disseminating it to law enforcement.
The photograph should be an accurate depiction of the child,
not overly posed or “glamorized.” Nor should other
people, animals, or objects be in the photograph. The photograph
should not be taken outside, out of focus, torn, damaged, or
very small.
The photograph should have space for accurate, narrative description
useful to identify the child such as name, nickname, height,
weight, sex, age, eye color, identifying marks, glasses, and
braces.
The photograph should be updated at least every six months for
children 6 years of age or younger and then once a year, or
when a child's appearance changes.
All copies of child’s photograph and information should
be maintained in an easily accessible, secure space by the parents
or guardian. The photograph and data should never be stored
in a public database.
Additional
Assistance to 
Parents and Guardians
Utah
Missing Person Clearinghouse Home Page
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