oh HERE they're following the letter of the law

when if they did release information to the national center for missing and exploited children (a LEGIT agency) perhaps the 385 missing children would be reunited with their families. i understand privacy laws, but good goddess, release the info to the national center!


Nearly four months after Katrina, hundreds of children still missing
08:54 PM CST on Friday, December 23, 2005
Dave McNamara / WWL
Controversy brewed Friday over FEMA’s reluctance to release information on evacuees, data that some agencies have said could speed up the process of finding children missing since Hurricane Katrina.
It was not until the FBI began requesting information that FEMA this month turned over the records, which are protected by privacy laws.

Thousands of evacuees gathered along the I-10 at Causeway in the days following Hurricane Katrina to be airlifted to safety. In the rush to flee New Orleans, and the chaos that followed Katrina, families were torn apart.
Officials on the front lines of the search have said that those federal privacy rules may have hampered efforts to reunite families.
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children has a database with close to 500 names, all of them children whose whereabouts are still unknown. .........