Missey Smith News Today

Fifteen years after she was abducted and murdered while running an errand, Kelsey Smith’s name still resonates across Kansas City, the country and the world — and her family’s fight to provide law enforcement with tools to prevent a similar tragedy continues, too.

Celebration was in the air on the evening of June 2, 2007 when Kelsey Smith, a college-bound 18-year-old, left her home in Overland Park, Kansas. 

Kansas congressional delegation working for Kelsey Smith Act, oversight of small business investments and federal funding to aid farmers' mental health.

A law created in Kansas after the murder of an Overland Park teen nearly 15 years ago could be adopted nationwide.

‘Kelsey Smith Act’ to help locate kidnap victims becomes Oklahoma law Oklahoma Senate Communications OKLAHOMA CITY – A bill intended to help law enforcement locate kidnap victims faster has been signed into law. Sen. Darrell Weaver, R-Moore, and Rep. Rande Worthen, R-Lawton, are the principal authors of Senate Bill 272, the “Kelsey Smith Act,” which will require cell phone companies to provide phone location information to law enforcement in emergency situations, such as an abduction...