Williamson County adopted its own missing person program, as an extension of Dallas's AMBER System. The Rachel Alert allows information to go out at a moment's notice to police and the media about a missing person.

The AMBER System only alerts people about missing children under the age of 16, but as Sgt. Mike Lummus explained, the Rachel Alert has no age limit.

"This does all ages,” he said. “There is no discrimination of 3 or 83. It gives us the choice to enter in – we can do runaways, maybe senior citizens who are suffering from Alzheimer's and wandered away; we can do abductions … it leaves the choice solely to us.”

The software is named after Rachel Cooke, the 20-year-old who's been missing since January. It will create a Web page and send information electronically to pagers, cell phones and computers within 30 seconds.