Missing Persons

Published: Sept. 26, 2014, 1:54 p.m.

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There are hundreds of thousand missing persons in the FBI\\u2019s database. \\xa0For many people, the methods of finding their lost loved ones are as mysterious as their disappearances. On today\\u2019s Fordham Conversations we hear from Privacy and Information Consultant Bob Gellman. \\xa0He discusses some of the legal and ethical challenges in searching for missing people. Gellman is \\xa0a Senior Fellow, Center on Law and Information Policy, Fordham University School of Law 2012-13. WFUV\\u2019s Rob Palazzolo also talks to Dr. Arnita Fowler. Her son went missing almost 20 years ago, and due to a lack of resources for locating missing adults and a bureaucratic mess, she didn\\u2019t recover his body from Hart Island for 4 years. Fowler has been trying to reform the system for locating missing persons in the New York.

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