Kansas Administrative Regulations
Agency 10 - KANSAS BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
Article 20 - MISSING PERSONS; UNIDENTIFIED DECEASED PERSONS
Section 10-20-2 - Procedures and forms for reporting any missing person

(a) All law enforcement agencies shall accept without delay any report of a missing person made by any individual.

(b) Unless law enforcement knows the exact physical location of any missing person, the law enforcement agency shall upon receipt of the report enter the information into NCIC as prescribed by the chapter titled "missing person file," which is contained in the "NCIC 2000 operating manual," as in effect on November 8, 2006 and hereby adopted by reference, to create an active record.

(c) After the initial NCIC entry report has been made, the law enforcement agency shall attempt to obtain additional information as prescribed by the "NCIC missing person file data collection entry guide," revised February 2006 and hereby adopted by reference, and enter the information into NCIC as promptly as possible and no longer than 30 days from the date of the initial report.

(d) If the person identified in the missing person report remains missing after 30 days, the law enforcement agency shall contact family members of the missing person and attempt to obtain DNA samples for comparison purposes as prescribed by the "national missing persons program family reference sample collection kit," dated April 2005 by the U.S. department of justice and hereby adopted by reference.

(e) The law enforcement agency shall advise the reporting party to notify the law enforcement agency no later than 24 hours after the missing person returns or is located.

(f) Upon locating each missing person, the law enforcement agency shall remove the entry from NCIC.

(g) A law enforcement agency shall not remove a missing person's report from NCIC based solely on the person's age.