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New Hampshire · Through 2025 regular legislative session, or December 2025

RSA 169-E:2: Report.

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  1. Title XII: PUBLIC SAFETY AND WELFARE
  2. Chapter 169-E: MISSING CHILDREN

When a law enforcement agency in this state that has jurisdiction in the matter is informed that a minor is or may be a missing child and that the person providing the information wishes to file a missing child report, the law enforcement agency shall take that report from the child's parents, custodial parent, guardian, legal custodian or any other person responsible for the missing child. Upon taking the report, the law enforcement agency shall take reasonable and appropriate action to locate the missing child. No law enforcement agency in this state shall have a rule or policy that prohibits or discourages the filing of or the taking of action upon a missing child report, within a specified period following the discovery or formulations of a belief that a minor is or could be a missing child.

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