Carri Gordon

Missing Persons Clearinghouse Manager - Washington State Patrol (Ret.)

Ms. Carri Gordon has worked for the Washington State Patrol since 1991. For 17 years, she worked in the Communications Division, with the last five years as the training program manager, responsible for all dispatch/radio training for troopers and dispatchers. During this time, Ms. Gordon was heavily involved with implementing the Washington State America’s Missing: Broadcast Emergency Response (AMBER) Alert Plan and developing related procedures and training. In June 2012, Ms. Gordon became the Washington State AMBER Alert Coordinator and Missing Persons Clearinghouse Manager. She assists the National Criminal Justice Training Center of Fox Valley Technical College with first responder curriculum development and instructional delivery, both classroom and webinar events related to missing child and missing person investigations. Ms. Gordon and her team handle all missing person alerts in Washington State on a 24/7 basis. She was crucial to the recent implementation of the Missing Indigenous Person Alert and implementing new alerting technology that enables her team to geographically send alerts to cell phones near the location where a person went missing, including photos of the missing person. Ms. Gordon has supported the National Ashanti Alert Network’s work as a member of a stakeholder working group and presenter.

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