of abducted children who are murdered are killed within the first 3 hours of the abduction. The window is closing before law enforcement can cover the ground.
Amber's Angels
closes that window.
A community-driven AI search network. When an AMBER Alert fires, volunteers and drones fill the coverage gaps law enforcement can't — and AI identifies the vehicle before it's too late.
The gap is real — and it's geographic.
Carroll County, GA: 503 square miles. Significant road network with no fixed LPR coverage — residential streets, rural routes, and secondary roads where a suspect vehicle can disappear in minutes.
Source: OJJDP / National Center for Missing & Exploited Children
Carroll County, GA — illustrative coverage map
Alert fires. Network activates. AI finds the vehicle.
Every enrolled volunteer becomes a mobile sensor node. Our Cascade Inference engine identifies not just a license plate — but the specific make, model, and year range of the suspect vehicle. Even when plates are switched or missing.
FEMA IPAWS Fires
Government-verified alert triggers platform activation automatically
Mission Push Sent
Volunteers receive sector assignments based on Flight Priority Zones
Cascade Inference
YOLOv8 + OpenALPR scans every frame for plate, make, model, and color
Human Review
Every high-confidence hit reviewed by a coordinator before any action is taken
Lead Confirmed
Coordinator-verified sighting — GPS coordinates, photo, and vehicle profile ready for responding teams
Real logs. Real pipeline. June 7, 2026.
A demo AMBER Alert was injected and two volunteers responded — one phone, one drone. Both hit 99% peak confidence on the same plate within the same session.
↳ plate=YVJ024 · white sedan · Carroll Co., GA
↳ watchlist hit · vehicle: white sedan · profile ✓
↳ fuzzy: len=7 ≠ watchlist len=6 · dismissed · Z↔2 OCR variant noted
↳ len=6 ✓ · 0-char delta · escalating to aggregation window
Built for field conditions. Zero extra hardware required.
Volunteers use their existing smartphone. Drone pilots connect DJI hardware directly to our platform. Every frame is processed in real-time and deleted immediately — no video archive, ever.
Scan-while-you-drive: a persistent foreground service keeps frame uploads running even when you navigate to Maps or Uber (Android). iOS: keep app foregrounded.
4-step DJI setup flow: power on → GPS lock → select Drone mode → Start Mission. GPS telemetry auto-attached to every uploaded frame.
Coordinator dashboard: live volunteer positions, active alert polygons (FEMA feed, refreshed every 60s), out-of-range warnings, and tap-to-detail on every asset.
Pilot positioning guide: operate from road shoulder or adjacent field — never over active lanes. 30–45° camera angle, ≤200 ft AGL, visual line of sight at all times (FAA Part 107).
5-step in-app onboarding: volunteer mode → device identity → capture interval → save settings → go live. Settings persist across restarts.
Not just AMBER Alerts.
Our platform activates across five government-issued alert types — protecting children, seniors, adults with disabilities, and endangered officers.
| Alert Type | Population Served | Trigger |
|---|---|---|
| AMBER Alert | Abducted children | FEMA IPAWS — automated |
| Silver Alert | Missing seniors with dementia / Alzheimer's | FEMA IPAWS — automated |
| Mattie's Call | At-risk adults with developmental disabilities | FEMA IPAWS — automated |
| Purple Alert | Missing persons with disabilities | State emergency system |
| Blue Alert | Endangered law enforcement officers | State emergency system |
On the ground in Georgia.
Six-month deployment in Carrollton, Georgia — a community with significant coverage gaps in its road network, active law enforcement engagement, and a veteran community ready to mobilize.
- 1Enroll and train 30 ground volunteers and 5 Part 107-certified drone pilots
- 2Achieve operational readiness for live AMBER Alert response
- 3Demonstrate successful VMMC detection in field exercises with law enforcement observers
- 4Publish a public transparency report on detection accuracy and privacy compliance
Impact Math — Launch Day
Actively engaging local law enforcement. Active support from the Carrollton veteran community aligned with our SDVOSB founding.
We save lives without building a surveillance state.
Every architectural decision begins with one question: what is the minimum data required for this mission? Raw footage is never stored. Innocent citizens are never profiled.
No Video Archiving
Raw footage is processed in real-time and deleted immediately. We build no searchable database of innocent citizens.
Operational Necessity Only
We collect and store only data strictly required for the active search mission. Nothing more.
Human in the Loop
No AI result reaches law enforcement without human coordinator review. AI flags. Humans decide.
Public Transparency
Our data retention policies are public and rigorous. Published with every pilot transparency report.
Common questions.
From volunteers, parents, and partners — answered plainly.
No. For ground volunteers, all you need is an Android or iPhone and a car mount. The app runs in the background while you drive your normal routes — your phone becomes a mobile sensor node. Drone pilots need a DJI-compatible aircraft and an FAA Part 107 certificate; the app connects to your DJI hardware directly in four steps.
The moment FEMA IPAWS issues an alert, our platform automatically ingests it, extracts the suspect vehicle description (plate, make, model, color), and sends push notifications to enrolled volunteers in the affected area. Volunteers receive a sector assignment and open a mission. Every frame their phone or drone captures is scanned in real-time by our Cascade Inference engine — no manual steps required.
No. Raw frames are processed the instant they arrive and deleted immediately — we never build a video archive. The only data we retain is a high-confidence detection record (plate text, GPS coordinates, timestamp, and a cropped vehicle image) for confirmed suspect vehicles. Innocent vehicles generate no stored record whatsoever.
Your GPS is only transmitted when you have an active mission open in the app. The moment you end a mission or close the session, location reporting stops. We have no background location capability outside of an active alert response.
Plate-only systems run roughly 30% false positive rates due to misreads, partial plates, and switched plates. Our Cascade Inference engine layers OpenALPR plate reading with YOLOv8 visual make, model, color, and year-range classification. That combination drops false positives to under 5% in field testing. Every high-confidence hit also goes through human coordinator review before any information reaches law enforcement.
Trained coordinators. Every AI detection is flagged to a coordinator dashboard — no result is acted on until a human reviews the photo, GPS location, and confidence score and explicitly approves it. AI flags. Humans decide. That's not a disclaimer; it's how the system is architected.
Yes. We are a federally recognized 501(c)(3) public charity (EIN 42-2052151), incorporated and headquartered in Carrollton, Georgia. Determination letter received. All financial information is available on request.
The platform responds to five government-issued alert types: AMBER Alerts (abducted children), Silver Alerts (missing seniors with dementia or Alzheimer's), Mattie's Call (adults with developmental disabilities), Purple Alerts (missing persons with disabilities), and Blue Alerts (endangered law enforcement officers). All five are ingested automatically from FEMA IPAWS — no manual activation needed.
We're currently running our pilot program in Carrollton, GA and are actively building the evidence base for expansion. If you're a law enforcement agency, emergency management office, or civic organization interested in a future deployment, email us at info@amberangels.org. Partnership inquiries from grant-making organizations are also welcome.
Be there when it matters most.
Every volunteer hour is time a child gets back. Every dollar funds the infrastructure that makes the search possible.
Volunteer — Ground
Drive your normal routes during active alerts. Your phone does the work. No special hardware needed — just a car mount and the app.
Create an Account →Volunteer — Drone
Part 107 certified? Put your skills and your aircraft to work. DJI hardware connects directly to our platform in four steps.
Register as a Pilot →Fund the Mission
We're a federally recognized 501(c)(3) nonprofit (EIN 42-2052151). Every dollar of grant funding goes directly toward operational readiness — no software licensing fees.
Contact Us →See the full picture.
The platform is more than the app. Explore the operational strategy, the technical architecture, and the people behind it.
What we presented to law enforcement.
Community deployment strategy, operational readiness timeline, and the partnership framework we brought to the Carrollton Police Department. If you want to understand where the pilot is headed, start here.
View deck →Technical Deep DiveAlert through to coordinator determination — end to end.
FEMA IPAWS ingestion, Cascade Inference engine, YOLO + OpenALPR fusion, human review loop, and mission dispatch. Every layer of the stack, explained without the marketing.
View deck →Volunteer StoriesFour ways to help. Zero overlap.
Maria scanned 340 plates during her lunch break. DeShawn covered two thousand on a single delivery shift — and didn't know about the flag until later. The platform fits everyone.
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