The National Center for Missing and Exploited...

The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children launched a nationwide push at a Washington news conference to promote state legislation aimed at improving methods of finding and helping victimized children. Officials of the nonprofit center said they are distributing to legislators in all 50 states a wide-ranging guide that recommends tighter, more effective state laws “to protect children.” The center will focus particularly on 15 states--including California--that already have enacted some child victim legislation, officials said.