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Missing persons

Justice Department Fights for the Missing

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Since 2007, the U.S. Department of Justice has helped to lead the search for tens of thousands of missing Americans. Created by the Department’s National Institute of Justice (NIJ), the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System, known as NamUs, catalogs photos, fingerprints, dental records and other forensic evidence in an effort to find the missing, identify human remains and close cases that, in many...

Operation Lady Justice Summary Fact Sheet

Date Published
June 2020
Agencies
OJP
Publication Type
Report (Technical Assistance), Program/Project Description, Legislation/Policy Description, Instructional Material (Programmed), Factsheet

TECHBeat, March 2018

Date Published
March 2018
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Program/Project Evaluation