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"A legislative study scheduled for Tuesday will consider the possibility of creating a runaway alert system similar to the Amber Alert.\u201CRunaway cases are handled a bit differently in Oklahoma than cases in which the child abducted,\u201D state Rep. Joe Dorman\u00A0said. \u201CA common misperception is that the Amber Alert system is for all missing children, but it is actually only issued for abductions. One of the problems we face in reacting to runaway cases is the larger number of runaway reports that occur in the state.\u201DHouse Bill 2227 is currently awaiting a committee hearing in the Oklahoma Senate, and would allow law enforcement to take reported runaways into custody and require an exit interview with all runaways taken into custody to verify the reason for leaving the home is not abuse or neglect.Law enforcement cannot currently pick up runaways unless they are breaking a law, Dorman said.The alert system would come at an estimated one-time price tag of approximately $75,000, according to information provided to Dorman by the Department of Public Safety, and the law would allow private donations to assist with the cost.Officials said Dorman has offered to help raise the funds privately to cover the effort."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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