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Our best missing persons database could disappear in a few months Officials point fingers over the fate of the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System, a crucial resource in solving dead-end forensics cases.
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Hundreds of thousands of people go missing each year in the US. And, for more than a decade, law enforcement officers, medical examiners, volunteer sleuths, and families have been able to use the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System, or NamUs, to seek answers.
Established in 2007, NamUs offers public databases and free forensic services. Since its inception, according to the program’s website, it has helped resolve more than 2,700 missing persons cases and identify more than 2,000 bodies. Tens of thousands of open cases remain in the system.
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Every year in Illinois, several new laws passed in the previous legislative session take effect on Jan. 1. While typically this might include hundreds of new measures, as it did at the beginning of 2020, this year was markedly different.
Just three new laws, plus a new provision of a previously passed law, take effect this new year after much of the legislative session was canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic, leaving less time and opportunity for bills to pass.
While the pandemic continues, a new proposal may make it easier for lawmakers to vote remotely and enable more legislative work in 2021, even as the coronavirus poses a major risk of transmission during in-person events. Two lawmakers filed a measure in December to allow the General Assembly to meet virtually in both committees and in session after a similar measure failed by one vote in May.
By Taylor Jedrzejek
The holiday season is the time, more than any other point during the year, that brings families and friends together. But, as with everything in 2020, that has been tested. With people being asked not to travel, many are making hard decisions on whether to see loved ones or not.
Unfortunately for the Cawley family, they wonât be whole no matter how far they travel.
Selena is still missing.
âThereâs a couple of Christmas songs that I think of,â Brian Cawley said. âBetween âBlue Christmasâ and âIâll be home for Christmasâ, whenever they come on it really strikes home.â
Not if it s spent without their mom.
They told their aunt, Kawonna Abner, who is raising them, to use money for presents toward hiring a detective to help find their mother.
This will mark the third Christmas that Calloway s children have spent without her. They ve grown and progressed in school. A lot of time has gone by.
Calloway hasn t been seen or heard from since June 2018, although police wouldn t allow Abner to file a missing person s report until August 2019, Abner said. In the past few weeks, the investigation into Calloway s disappearance has ramped up, but the years-long delay and lack of interest in finding her sister is unforgivable, she says.