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Look for this Code Adam decal in the windows of
the stores you and your family frequent.
Code Adam, one of the country's largest child-safety programs,
was created and promoted by the Wal-Mart®
retail stores and named in memory of 6-year-old Adam
Walsh whose abduction from a Florida shopping mall and murder in 1981
brought the horror of child abduction to national attention.
When a customer reports a missing child to a store employee, a "Code
Adam" alert is announced over the public-address system. A brief description
of the child is obtained and provided to all designated employees who
immediately stop their normal work to search for the child and monitor
all exits to help prevent the child from leaving the store.
If the child is not found within 10 minutes of initiating a storewide
search, or if the child is seen accompanied by someone other than a parent
or guardian, store personnel contact local law enforcement and request
assistance.
Since the Code Adam program began in 1994 it has been a powerful preventive
tool against child abductions and lost children in more than 45,000 stores
across the nation. Wal-Mart®, with the
help of NCMEC, has generously offered other retailers the opportunity
to implement this powerful tool against child abduction."
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