Politics Philly highlights more missing Philadelphians, and he points us to where we can find information about them:
There's no doubt that everyone hopes the Latoyia Figueroa situation has a happy ending.
However I thought, while the spotlight is on this issue, it might be prudent to point you towards some other missing Philadelphians.
The Philadelphia Police Department has a wonderful website. Their press release section is equally significant.
Why? Because it has information about missing people of the moment. As it was pointed out by a relative of mine, there are thousands of missing in the United States right now. ... (read the rest at PoliticsPhilly.com)
I have an idea (for what it's worth)
Maybe someone crafty could work local Police Departments to generate Blogads like the one for Latoyia to run as blog PSAs. If possible it would be great if it could be set up in a way that there are a few missing person PSAs they way a blogad is set up but the ones that show up would be random to maximize the # missing persons getting local (and national exposure). It would be really cool if it could be set up with 2 local/regional missing persons + one out of region person to be autogenerated each time the page is refreshed. If someone could set that up, I'd sure as heck put it up (and I'm pretty sure a lot more folks with wider readership than I have would as well).
It's worth a lot
Cranky - I had the very same thought and was planning to post about it. I think this idea has a lot of meri. Do a full post on the idea, I will make sure it is promoted to the home page, and we can discuss making this happen.
That's a great idea ....
Maybe it would be possible to get them to generate an RSS feed via java to make that accessible to anyone with a website. I might send them an email, which is something we all could do, actually.
It's days like this I wish I were a better writer
This is what I came up with.
Can you post that here?
Cranky - that's excellent work - please post that here and we will promote it front center and sticky at the top of the site. Click "Write the News!" - > "Submit a story with your account".
Philly Future is has tools that can enable your (our) vision of this. I think the team here would gladdly donate the time to make this happen. It's the kind of distributed, participatory service this site was made for.
Both the idea and the writing is brilliant
That authenticity, coupled with a truly brilliant idea - blogs as the milk cartons of the new millennium - is what's needed. This gives me chills in seeing what a great idea well executed can do. Cheers.
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Tulin's on board, he suggests we contact not only Philly PD (would that be their community relations folks or civil affairs group that we should be contacting?) but maybe check with an attorney to see if we could run into any legal issues (especially using photos of missing minors). I'm going to cross post the piece at OurWord.org as well, maybe some of the folks there will have suggestions/ideas or just make similar arrangements with their local authorities.
Psst. I'm a she. ;)
Psst. I'm a she. ;)
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