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A voluntary partnership between law-enforcement agencies, media broadcasters, and the wireless industry to quickly notify the public about an abducted child. AMBER stands for "America's Missing: Broadcast Emergency Response." The alert system was developed in 1996 after nine-year-old Amber Hagerman was abducted and murdered near her home in Texas.