Okla. Stat. tit. 74, § 74-150.12A: Missing or runaway persons - Reports - National Crime

Information Center entries - Procedures and guidelines - Family

abduction reports - Missing children publicity and hotline.

A. It shall be the duty of any sheriff, chief of police, city

marshal, constable, or any other law enforcement officer,

immediately upon receipt of any report of a missing or runaway

person, to send one copy of such report to the Oklahoma State Bureau

of Investigation and enter such information, when applicable, to the

National Crime Information Center. Within seventy-two (72) hours of

location or discovery of the missing or runaway person, the sheriff,

chief of police, city marshal, constable, or any other law

enforcement officer shall notify the Oklahoma State Bureau of

Investigation and remove the entry from the National Crime

Information Center. Upon location or discovery of the missing or

runaway person, the sheriff, chief of police, city marshal,

constable or any other law enforcement officer shall immediately

make the appropriate entry to the National Crime Information Center

in accordance with NCIC standard operating procedures.

B. The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation and the Oklahoma

Law Enforcement Telecommunications System shall jointly establish

the procedures and guidelines necessary for enacting and maintaining

an electronic database for missing and runaway persons in the State

of Oklahoma which is compatible with the data collection entry

procedures of the National Crime Information Center. The Oklahoma

State Bureau of Investigation shall establish guidelines for law

enforcement officers concerning the collection and dissemination of

information concerning missing or runaway persons.

C. Whenever a missing or runaway person report regarding a

person born in the State of Oklahoma and under eighteen (18) years

of age is received by a sheriff, chief of police, city marshal,

constable or any other law enforcement officer, and there is reason

to believe that the person is the victim of a family abduction, the

reporting agency shall notify the Oklahoma State Bureau of

Investigation, the Bureau shall immediately notify the State

Commissioner of Health that the person has been reported to be

missing. The Director of the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation

and the State Commissioner of Health shall jointly establish the

procedures and forms necessary for the transmittal of information

between the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation and the State

Department of Health required pursuant to the provisions of Section

150.1 et seq. of this title.

D. The Bureau shall establish a program to periodically

publicize the names and pictures of missing children along with a

missing children hot-line number on OETA.