Del. #PaulKrizek said Thursday that he will be introducing legislation in the #Virginia General Assembly to better codify how police can use the Virginia Endangered Missing Children Media Alert (VEMCMA). The bill is inspired by the disappearance and murder of 16-year-old #JholieMoussa , a #MountVernonHighSchool student whose case garnered national attention earlier this year. Krizek noted that the #VEMCMA is often issued by the state police for cases that don’t meet the strict criteria for #AMBERAlerts , but that it is not used uniformly by local law enforcement. “Our police do great work and often issue the VEMCMA even when the AMBER Alert criteria is not met, but the lives of our children are precious and we need to be 100 percent certain that each time a child goes missing that we utilize every single avenue available to find that child,” said Krizek, a Democrat whose 44th district covers much of the Richmond Highway area. Moussa went missing January 12 of this year from her home in the #MountZephyr area. Her body was found by police two weeks later in #WoodlawnPark . A former boyfriend, #NebiyuEbrahim , was arrested in August and charged in her killing. https://www.instagram.com/p/BsL_lZNnkky/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=176jl571u7ymj
