New app hopes to help quickly locate missing children and adults
LAS VEGAS (KSNV) — It's been 20 years since Elizabeth Smart was the focus of a desperate search after being abducted from her bedroom as a child and held captive by a man and his wife for nine months before police in Utah rescued her.
She's now one of the nation's best-known advocates for missing and exploited children.
Elizabeth Smart's Tuesday visit to the Las Vegas Convention Center was to take part in the Safe City Summit.
The goal was to talk about ways to use technology from companies like Q5id to help find missing children and adults.
A Portland-based tech company Q5id says it's using Las Vegas as a pilot city for its new "Guardian" app, to help quickly locate missing children and adults.
If someone goes missing, a paid subscriber can send out an alert received by every other Guardian app user nearby.
With the launch of the guardian app, Las Vegas will join Portland as a pilot city.
Q5id hopes to take it nationwide later this year.
