The missing-person case of Robert Ouellette of Cotuit makes the case for a statewide "Silver Alert" system like the "Amber Alerts" issued for missing and kidnapped children.
Florida followed the lead of a dozen other states and created a Silver Alert program in October. It's been used at least 19 times, and all the subjects were found.
Cape police — led by Barnstable — have done a good job making the 80-year-old Ouellette a priority, and other agencies and individuals have spent time and searched back roads and parking lots, too. But a statewide alert system would carry the urgency over the bridge to millions of more eyes that could be looking for Ouellette's light blue 2000 Mercury Marquis, license plate 472 BXC.
Read more at the Cape Cod Times.
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