The language of House Bill 1108 has been introduced three previous times in Missouri, and has been passed out of the House but never out of the Senate. It would require companies to locate, or ping a cell phone, when law enforcement requests that information in emergencies in which a missing person is in danger of serious physical injury or death. It also protects cell phone companies from being sued for providing that information under the guidelines of the bill.
Missey and her husband, Greg Smith, are proponents of the bill commonly named for their daughter Kelsey, who was kidnapped from Overland Park, Kansas and found murdered in southern Jackson County in 2007.
Greg, now a legislator in Kansas, says if such language had been law then Kelsey might have been saved. June 2, 2007 was the night she went missing and she was found four days later Once that information was released by the cell phone company it only took forty-five minutes to recover her body. A former police officer, he adds, If you can get that kind of response in a missing person case, thats just absolutely light years ahead of what were doing right now.
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