CNN CNN Newsroom August 8, 2013 14:37:00
Alert. one user wrote "i don't think i'm okay with this amber alert stuff on my phone." another said "this amber alert just scared the crap out of me." is there a chance people will get frustrated and opt out of the alerts or stop looking or paying attention because they're frustrated by them? >> when i talked to people from missing children that people opt out but they did have an opt-in program before. the national amber alert program was an opt-in. over seven years, only 800,000 people opted into it. they decided when they go in 2013, you have millions of people getting amber alert. that's ...