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[[File:AMBER alert Android.jpg|alt=An amber alert on Android. An amber alert on Android. Text reads in all caps "Riverhead, NY AMBER Alert: LIC/ [license plate removed] (NY) Grey Hyundai Santa Fe SUV".|thumb |upright=1.15 |An AMBER alert as seen on [[Android (operating system)|Android]], advising users to call [[9-1-1|911]] if they find a car with a matching description.]]
An '''Amber Alert''' (alternatively styled '''AMBER alert''') or a '''child abduction emergency alert''' ([[Specific Area Message Encoding|SAME]] code: CAE) is a message distributed by a [[child abduction alert system]] to ask the public for help in finding abducted children.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=About AMBER Alert |url=https://amberalert.ojp.gov/about |access-date=2022-11-30 |website=AMBER Alert |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last1=Crawford|first1=Selwyn|last2=Hundley| first2=Wendy |title=15 Years Later, Critics Debate Effectiveness of Amber Alert |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|date=January 23, 2011|access-date=April 13, 2023 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/15-years-later-critics-debate-effectiveness-of-amber-alert/2011/01/21/ABDZX0G_story.html}}</ref> The system originated in the United States of America.<ref name=":0" />
 
The Amber alert was created in reference to [[Amber Rene Hagerman]], who was abducted and later found murdered in 1996. Alternative regional alert names were once used; in [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]], "Levi's Call"<ref>{{cite web |title=Levi's Call |access-date=November 7, 2010 |url=http://amber.gbi.georgia.gov/00/channel_modifieddate/0,2096,67865199_67868035,00.html |publisher=Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) – Georgia.gov|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101023061604/http://amber.gbi.georgia.gov/00/channel_modifieddate/0%2C2096%2C67865199_67868035%2C00.html |archive-date=October 23, 2010 |url-status=dead }}</ref> (in memory of Levi Frady); in [[Hawaii]], "Maile Amber Alert"<ref>{{cite web |title=Maile Amber Alert |url=http://hawaii.gov/ag/mcch/main/maile_amber |publisher=Hawaii Department of Attorney General}}</ref> (in memory of Maile Gilbert); in [[Arkansas]], "Morgan Nick Amber Alert"<ref>{{cite web | title=Morgan Nick Amber Alert |year=2006 |url=http://www.asp.arkansas.gov/asp/mnaa.html |publisher=Arkansas State Police}}</ref> (in memory of [[Disappearance of Morgan Nick|Morgan Nick]]); in [[Utah]], it is called "Rachael Alert" (in memory of [[Murder of Rachael Runyan|Rachael Runyan]]), and "Monkey's Law" in Idaho (in memory of Michael Joseph Vaughan.)
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