§775 National Emergency Family Registry and Locator System

Summary

The Administrator must create a National Emergency Family Registry and Locator System within 180 days after October 4, 2006 to help reunite families separated by an emergency or major disaster. A "displaced individual" is someone forced from their home by an emergency. The registry is the database the Administrator must set up. The system must let displaced adults, including medical patients, or a parent/guardian for a child, voluntarily give personal details (like name and current location) for entry into a database. The information must be available to people the displaced person names and to law enforcement. The system must be reachable by the Internet and a toll‑free phone line and must link to the National Emergency Child Locator Center. The Administrator must tell the public about the system within 210 days, sign a sharing agreement within 90 days with DOJ, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, HHS, the American Red Cross and other groups, and report to Congress on the system’s status and any problems, including funding, within 270 days.