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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>82025</law_id><section_number>52-34.4</section_number><catch_line>Definitions</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>19.2-70.3</reference><reference>2.2-5517</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="52">Police (State)</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="7.2">Virginia Senior Alert Program</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>As used in this chapter:
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Media</span>&#x201D; means print, radio, television, and Internet-based communication systems or other methods of communicating information to the public.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Missing senior adult</span>&#x201D; means an adult whose whereabouts are unknown and who is over 60 years of age and suffers a cognitive impairment to the extent that he is unable to provide care to himself without assistance from a caregiver, including a diagnosis of Alzheimer&#x2019;s Disease or dementia, and whose disappearance poses a credible threat as determined by a <span class="dictionary">law</span>-enforcement agency to the health and safety of the adult and under such other circumstances as deemed appropriate by the Virginia State Police.
		&#x201C;Senior alert&#x201D; means the notice of a <span class="dictionary">missing senior adult</span> provided to the public by the <span class="dictionary">media</span> or other methods under a <span class="dictionary">Senior Alert Agreement</span>.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Senior Alert Agreement</span>&#x201D; means a voluntary agreement between <span class="dictionary">law</span>-enforcement officials and members of the <span class="dictionary">media</span> whereby a senior adult will be declared missing, and the public will be notified by <span class="dictionary">media</span> outlets, and includes all other incidental conditions of the partnership as found appropriate by the Virginia State Police.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Senior Alert Program</span>&#x201D; or &#x201C;Program&#x201D; means the procedures and <span class="dictionary">Senior Alert Agreements</span> to aid in the identification and location of a <span class="dictionary">missing senior adult</span>.</p></section></text><history>2007, cc. 486, 723.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
