The Vermont Statutes Online
The Statutes below include the actions of the 2025 session of the General Assembly.
NOTE: The Vermont Statutes Online is an unofficial copy of the Vermont Statutes Annotated that is provided as a convenience.
(Cite as: 3 App. V.S.A. ch. 20, § 6)
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Executive Order No. 20-6 (No. 82-90) [Designation of Vermont State Police as State Clearinghouse for Missing
and Exploited Children]
WHEREAS, the Missing Children’s Assistance Act, passed by the United States Congress
in 1984, established a National Center for Missing and Exploited Children; and
WHEREAS, the National Center is designed to help in establishing, maintaining and
providing support information networks for state clearinghouses on missing and exploited
children; and
WHEREAS, a state clearinghouse is necessary in order to maintain records, disseminate
information on reported missing children and to assist local, state and federal agencies
as well as family members on cases relating to missing and exploiting children; and
WHEREAS, each state clearinghouse serves as a state based extension of the national
effort to provide training, education, and public information relating to missing
and exploited children; and
WHEREAS, the Vermont General Assembly by enactment of Title 20, chapter 112, has mandated
that the Commissioner of the Department of Public Safety cooperate with and support
all law enforcement agencies in matters relating to missing persons, and when necessary
in order to protect a missing person from harm, to coordinate all efforts to search
for the missing person.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, Madeleine M. Kunin, by virtue of the powers vested in me as Governor
of the State of Vermont, do hereby designate the Vermont State Police, Department
of Public Safety, as the state clearinghouse for missing and exploited children. The
Vermont State Police shall contract with the National Center for Missing and Exploited
Children and coordinate with other state clearinghouse agencies in order to receive
and provide training, education, and public information relating to missing and exploited
children.
This Executive Order takes effect upon signing.
Dated January 12, 1990.