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Take Action: Provide Autism Training To Law Enforcement
Encourage Eric Holder to require autism response training to law enforcement around the country.
Goal: 10,000
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Progress: 6,031
Sponsored by: The Autism Site
For many parents who have children with autism, not knowing the child's whereabouts is a daily fear. Children with autism sometimes wander away from their homes and it's important that law enforcement have the necessary training to handle these types of situations. If a child with autism is lost, different measures may need to be taken to find him or her than if the situation involves a child who doesn't have autism.
We need to provide our law enforcement with background training on autism and how it might affect the behavior of children who have wandered off. An encounter with a lost child with autism has the potential to be confusing and harmful if police aren't educated on the nature of autism.
Ask Attorney General Eric Holder to encourage autism training for police departments around the country.
Dear Attorney General Eric Holder,
A missing child is a nightmare for any parent and law enforcement agency. But a lost child with autism can be a whole different situation. Children with autism sometimes have the propensity to wander, but the protocol for locating them needs to be handled with specialized methods and care.
For example, a child with autism might respond to law enforcement differently than a child without autism, and this reaction has the ability to alarm police and bystanders. What we need to do is prevent situations in which police are using misguided force or restraint that might otherwise be used in another routine situation.
Children with autism also respond to different triggers and cues, and police should be trained on how to identify autism's characteristics so that they may be more equipped to help or find the lost individual.
Please support country-wide autism training for our law enforcement.
Thank you.
Petition Signatures
May 13, 2013
Joanne George
May 12, 2013
Marianne Good
May 9, 2013
imaan bee
May 8, 2013
jennifer sibley
I think law enforcement should learn on how deal with autistic children. If there lost because autistic child is found they don't handle strangers or different settings very will. Some autistic children don't do good with change.
May 7, 2013
Mary Thomas
May 7, 2013
sarah magnant
May 7, 2013
Janice Larrson
May 6, 2013
Talia Howard
May 6, 2013
Yvonne Tessitore
May 6, 2013
Dyann Berndt
May 6, 2013
Kayla davis
May 6, 2013
Nicole Murphy
This is a very important issue to us!
May 6, 2013
Lisa Provident
Apr 30, 2013
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Apr 29, 2013
Shannon Cowett
Apr 28, 2013
Rachel Hirth
Apr 28, 2013
daniela laudati
Apr 27, 2013
Sharon Johnson
Apr 26, 2013
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Apr 26, 2013
Lori O'Dell
Apr 25, 2013
Hillary Tietsworth
Apr 24, 2013
Nakia Jackson
Apr 24, 2013
Adriane Ferreira
Apr 24, 2013
Lucinda McAlister
Apr 24, 2013
Sherri Rutledge
Apr 24, 2013
Rayna Carter
Apr 24, 2013
jill rodriguez
Apr 21, 2013
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Apr 21, 2013
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Apr 21, 2013
Stacey Calvert
Apr 20, 2013
Jennifer Henry
Apr 20, 2013
Debby DePrati
Apr 19, 2013
Arlo Jones
Apr 19, 2013
Erica Writesel
Apr 16, 2013
mandy ashe
Apr 14, 2013
Jeannie Meyers
Apr 14, 2013
Dianne Doochin
Apr 14, 2013
Shelley Cox
Apr 13, 2013
Melissa Peters
Educate ALL law enforcement regarding autism!!
Apr 12, 2013
dawn cruz
Apr 11, 2013
bonnie burbage
Apr 11, 2013
ryan mckenzie
Apr 11, 2013
Renee Klaus
Apr 11, 2013
Rosalia Casals
Apr 10, 2013
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Apr 8, 2013
Aaron Elliott
Apr 8, 2013
Tanya Rupp
I agree to this 100% because my autistic five year old Son, Doesn't understand the danger's, and law enforcement should know what kind of child their dealing with and know that these children need special help.
Apr 8, 2013
Klaudia Nowak
Apr 7, 2013
lilly holmes
Apr 6, 2013
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