SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Department of Public Safety is pausing the sending of AMBER Alerts to cell phones after an early-morning alert contained “no useful information.”
At about 3:30 a.m. Sunday, many Utahns received a message on their mobile devices that merely read “AMBER Alert.” It contained no other details in a system designed to alert the public to child-abduction incidents in real time.
“The alert, which was sent statewide as a Wireless Emergency Alert (WEA) at 3:33 a.m., mistakenly… READ MORE
