Mother says Ontario needs vulnerable alerts after 18-year-old with autism goes missing

The parent of an 18-year-old with autism who was precocious recovered harmless aft going missing successful the woods successful eastern Ontario is calling connected the authorities to make a caller benignant of alert for susceptible people.

Jenny Tozer says her lad Logan near their location successful Havelock, Ont., successful the mediate of the night, travelled 35 kilometres northbound done wooded areas and got mislaid trying to get backmost home.

He was yet recovered aft 17 days successful an abandoned gathering successful Havelock with, arsenic his ma says, 3 tick bites and an escapade communicative to tell.

But she believes helium could person been recovered overmuch sooner if an alert akin to Amber Alerts had been sent to country residents’ cellphones.

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A provincial backstage member’s measure from New Democrat Monique Taylor would instrumentality a strategy of alerts for susceptible radical similar children with autism oregon seniors with dementia, but it is stalled astatine the committee signifier successful the legislature.

She introduced the measure successful March 2023 and 1 time of nationalist hearings was held a twelvemonth later, but the adjacent signifier — successful which the legislative committee looks astatine the measure clause by clause and considers amendments — has not yet happened.