BeyondMissing is dedicated to protecting America's children. We are a nonprofit public benefit corporation, 501 (c) (3), incorporated in the state of California on March 22, 2001.

BeyondMissing was founded by Marc Klaas on June 8, 2001. Marc Klaas began to pursue an aggressive child safety agenda for the nation's children following the kidnap and murder of his twelve year old daughter Polly. Mr. Klaas provides the vision and the day to day leadership for our organization.

Historically funded by a U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Program grant (OJJDP), BeyondMissing provides law enforcement agencies with a secure, Internet based system to create and distribute missing child flyers to law enforcement, the media, and public and private recipients. There is no cost to agencies for this service and no proprietary hardware or software required.

Mark Green and BeyondMissing Former U.S. Representative Mark Green secured Federal financing for BeyondMissing in fiscal year 2001, 2005, and 2006. Read the November 14, 2001 Press Release

The BeyondMissing on-line tools:

• allow Registered law enforcement agencies to immediately construct and distribute graphic/text Amber Alert flyers via email, fax and text messaging to pre-populated database of agencies within a 200 mile radial area of the abduction. (Registered users of BeyondMissing will be responsible for following Amber Alert protocols established within their agency, region or state when distributing an Amber Alert flyer.)
• allow Registered law enforcement agencies to create and distribute English/Spanish language Abduction Alert or Missing Child Alert flyers via email, fax and SMS text messaging to BeyondMissing's pre-populated database of law enforcement agencies and media up to a 200 mile radius from the point of abduction. Additional "targeted" distributions can also be made.
• allow parents to create a Missing Child flyer in English/Spanish of their missing child.

Mission To aid in the recovery of abducted and missing children by providing high speed, cost effective communication tools to law enforcement and the communities they serve. Our only priority is missing children.

BeyondMissing.com flyer creation and distribution tools have been incorporated into the Texas statewide Amber Alert Network since October of 2002. All Texas law enforcement agencies and the Texas Department of Public Safety (TXDPS) have the ability to instantaneously create and distribute Amber Alert and Local Amber Alert photo flyers of missing children.

BeyondMissing.com Amber Alert tools have been utilized by the California Highway Patrol (CHP) and incorporated into the Bernalillo County, New Mexico Amber Alert plan.

Performance Since 2002, the BeyondMissing flyer creation and distribution technology has been utilized by registered law enforcement users in the search for 257 missing children. To date there have been 150 Amber Alerts, 16 Abduction Alerts and 91 Missing Child Alerts issued by law enforcement throughout the nation utilizing BeyondMissing technology. Alert notices have been sent to both public and private entities by facsimile, email and/or text message. BeyondMissing tools have had a 93% recovery rate and to date 239 children have been recovered. Collectively, BeyondMissing has issued 1,073,000 faxes, 358,350 emails and over 16,100 text messages to “targeted” recipients on behalf of law enforcement. The ethnic background of the abducted/missing children breaks down as follows: 116 White, 99 Hispanic, 26 Black, 3 Asian, 2 American Indian and 11 identified as other. In addition, the BeyondMissing Parent Flyer Tool has been accessed and utilized by over 1,000 families and organizations searching for missing children.