Section 2: Central register; included information

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Section 2. The director, in consultation with the colonel of state police, through electronic data processing and related procedures, shall establish a statewide central register containing all necessary and available identifying information of a missing child in the commonwealth. The register shall include the same information required by 42 U.S.C. section 5780 and may include:

(i)the missing child's identifying marks;

(ii)prosthetics or surgical implants;

(iii)a photograph;

(iv)a description of the missing child's clothing;

(v)items that might be with the missing child;

(vi)reasons why the reporting person believes that the child is missing;

(vii)circumstances that indicate the disappearance was involuntary;

(viii)circumstances that indicate the missing child may be at risk of injury or death;

(ix)the means of transportation of the missing person;

(x)the missing child's fingerprints; and

(xi)the missing child's blood type. The director may use existing data processing and data communications systems of the criminal justice information system.