REMINDER/National Center for Missing & Exploited Children to Celebrate Twenty-Year Anniversary by Honoring Outstanding Law Enforcement.

Assignment Desks

REMINDER...for Wednesday (May 19)

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WHO:    John Walsh, host of "America's Most Wanted: America Fights
         Back," and Reve Walsh, co-founders of NCMEC
        Bryan Cranston, actor who plays the father "Hal" on "Malcolm
         in the Middle"
        The Honorable Dennis DeConcini, Retired U.S. Senator,
         Chairman, NCMEC Board of Directors, Master of Ceremonies
        The Honorable Jim Lightfoot, Retired U.S. Congressman, Vice
         Chair, NCMEC Board of Directors, Master of Ceremonies
        Deborah Daniels, Assistant Attorney General, U.S. Department
         of Justice
        Ernie Allen, NCMEC President and CEO

WHEN:   8:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m., Wednesday, May 19, 2004

WHERE:  Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room G-50, Washington, D.C.

WHY:    NCMEC is committed to assisting law enforcement personnel in
        finding missing children and preventing child sexual
        exploitation. NCMEC works with federal, state, and local law
        enforcement on a daily basis and recognizes their efforts
        through a special annual awards ceremony held in partnership
        with the Fraternal Order of Police and U.S. Department of
        Justice's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency
        Prevention. Established in 1984, this year marks NCMEC's
        twentieth anniversary, which will be recognized at the event
        in addition to National Missing Children's Day, May 25.

WHAT:   NCMEC's Courage Award will be presented to Elizabeth Smart,
        whose March 2003 recovery brought joy to the nation and has
        helped keep hope alive for other searching parents. Senator
        Orrin Hatch (UT) will present the award.

        National Missing Children's Awards will be presented to the
        following.

        Special Agent Colleen Maher of the U.S. Department of
        Education's Office of Inspector General in Long Beach,
        California, will be presented with an award on behalf of her
        exceptional work in a fraud investigation that led to the
        recovery of Aric Austin, who was abducted from Vancouver,
        Washington, twenty years earlier by his noncustodial father
        when he was six months old. Special Agent Maher will be
        recognized along with Aric's mother. Aric is a Corporal in the
        U.S. Army and currently stationed in Afghanistan.

        Officer Elizabeth M. Butler of the Manlius Police Department
        in Manlius, New York, and Sergeant Richard Woolley of the
        Onondaga County Sheriff's Office in Syracuse, New York, will
        be presented with awards for the swift recovery of a
        16-year-old girl who was abducted and held captive by
        68-year-old John Jamelske. Jamelske's arrest gained national
        attention for having held six females in captivity spanning
        14 years. Senator Hillary Clinton (NY) will recognize Officer
        Butler and Sergeant Woolley.

        Captain Lyndon Parrish of the Cass County Sheriff's Office in
        Cassopolis, Michigan, Special Agent Roy Johnson of the Federal
        Bureau of Investigation in St. Joseph, Michigan, and Assistant
        U.S. Attorney Joan E. Meyer in Grand Rapids, Michigan, will be
        presented with awards for the successful recovery of Lindsey
        Ryan, a 14-year-old girl who was abducted by 57-year-old Terry
        Drake in Jones, Michigan. Congressman Fred Upton (MI) will
        honor the officers for their collaboration, along with Lindsey
        and her family.

        National Exploited Children's Awards will be presented to the
        following.

        Detective James E. Smith of the Connecticut State Police in
        Meriden, Connecticut, and Postal Inspector Martin Vega, Jr. of
        the U.S. Postal Inspection Service in Wallingford,
        Connecticut, will be honored for their resourcefulness and
        tenacity in dismantling a child pornography ring and
        apprehending several child sex predators. Senator Chris Dodd
        (CT) will recognize Detective Smith and Postal Inspector Vega.

        Special Agent Supervisor Jeff Mackanin of the California
        Department of Justice in Rancho Cordova, California, Special
        Agent Reginald K. Ogata of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
        in Sacramento, California, and Assistant U.S. Attorney Laurel
        White in Sacramento, California will be accepting awards on
        behalf of their agencies efforts and cooperation in resolving
        a nationwide Internet child pornography ring. Senator Barbara
        Boxer (CA) will recognize the representatives of the three
        agencies.

        Postal Inspector Steven Sadowitz of the U.S. Postal Inspection
        Service in Indianapolis, Indiana, and Senior Special Agent
        Perry Woo of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in
        Fairfax, Virginia, will be honored for their extraordinary
        investigative skills in exposing a child sex tourism and
        prostitution ring and rescuing numerous child victims.
        Congresswoman Julia Carson (IN) will recognize Postal
        Inspector Sadowitz and Senior Special Agent Woo.