Facebook users will soon be able to sign up and receive AMBER Alerts issued in their area via Facebook.
The social-networking site is teaming up with the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) for the initiative. More details will be provided at a press conference today in Virginia, which will also commemorate the 15th anniversary of the abduction and murder of Amber Hagerman, who was abducted and killed in 1996.