The abduction report triggered an Amber Alert for the children, but there were no reported sightings.
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Police never issued an Amber Alert on either case because they had no specific evidence of an abduction.
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Police "see an Amber Alert, they take them very seriously, " Mr. Griffin said.
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"The Amber Alert should work for any missing child, " Felix DeJesus said then.
The county remains on amber alert which means everyone should "be prepared" for up to 4ins (10cm) of snow.
An amber alert, the second highest alert, advises that people should be prepared for potential disruption caused by snowfall.
"The Amber Alert should work for any missing child, " Ms. DeJesus's father, Felix DeJesus, told the Associated Press in 2006.
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The James Paget Hospital, now on amber alert, said although under pressure it has not needed to cancel any operations.
The three counties remain on amber alert to "be prepared" for snow.
Rob Jackson, chairman of the panel that coordinates the state's Amber Alert program, which is designed to quickly disseminate information about abducted children.
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No Amber Alert was issued the day DeJesus failed to return home from school in April 2004 because no one witnessed her abduction.
Police first issued an Amber Alert for the suspect and his two sons on Thursday, eight days after they were last seen in Georgia.
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"Somehow they found out where the kids were and an Amber Alert is being issued now, " said Detective Larry McKinnon of the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office.
The lack of an Amber Alert angered her father, Felix DeJesus, who said in 2006 he believed the public will listen even if the alerts become routine.
The three counties remained on amber alert to "be prepared".
Those more assertive efforts eventually led to the AMBER alert system, which broadcasts news about missing children on TV, radio, the Internet, mobile phones, lottery tickets and highway signs.
But he said the case might not have been solved Saturday night without the alert citizen, as well as the Amber Alert system that publicizes news of missing and endangered children on highways, in police stations and around the United States.
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"It's just not a good way to do legislation, to exploit some terrible thing that has been done to some child, " he says of statutes like the AMBER Alert Act, which refers both to an abducted child and America's Missing-Broadcast Emergency Response (and is itself part of the Prosecutorial Remedies and Other Tools to End the Exploitation of Children Today, or PROTECT, Act).
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