Gov. Greg Abbott signed off on a new law Tuesday that will lower the threshold for local missing child alerts.
House Bill 3556 allows law enforcement in Texas to send out localized alerts — known as an "Athena Alert” — within a 100-mile radius of where a child has gone missing and in adjacent counties.
The law was inspired by the death of 7-year-old Athena Strand in November, who was found dead miles away from her father's Paradise, Texas home two days after she went missing. Police arrested former FedEx delivery driver Tanner Horner in connection with her death. He’s charged with capital murder and aggravated kidnapping.
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