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"Take Me Home" database helps San Diego deputies locate lost loved ones with special needs A registry on the San Diego County Sheriff’s website gives law enforcement key info about a missing person with special needs from their name, age, photo and address Author: Heather Hope (Reporter) Updated: 6:19 PM PST December 30, 2020 SAN DIEGO COUNTY, Calif. — Trying to locate lost loved ones is difficult enough. The San Diego County Sheriff’s Office hopes to make the search a little easier for those with special needs with an online registry called “Take Me Ho...

Sheriff’s officials are crediting a special registry first launched a decade ago with helping reunite a disoriented 85-year-old man with his family soon after he was found wandering on a Poway street earlier this month. The Take Me Home registry allows families to provide photos and emergency contact information for people with cognitive or developmental disabilities to help get them located faster if they turn up missing. Officials say the voluntary program could be helpful for someone with dementia, autism or other conditions that could make them unable to communicate their name and addr...