A heartbreaking loss in Hart County is prompting urgent questions about Kentucky’s new Ian Alert system, designed to help ...

IAN Alerts are one of two new alerts that were passed into law in Kentucky in 2024. It uses the same system as an Amber Alert, but is meant to notify everyone of a child with autism or other special ...

On Tuesday, the first IAN alert was issued for 5-year-old Silas Shearer in Hart County, who went missing from his home.

The IAN Alert, which notifies people when a child with an intellectual disability or mental illness is missing or endangered, ...

Police said 5-year-old Silas, who is autistic, walked away from his home Tuesday at 8 a.m. in Cub Run, Kentucky. Cub Run is just outside of Mammoth Cave National Park, which is about 170 miles from ...

The alert is named after Ian Sousis, an autistic child whose body was found in the Ohio River after he was reported missing ...

The IAN Alert was named for Ian Sousis, a northern Kentucky boy with autism who escaped a children's home. He was found after ...

The alert system was used for the first time exactly one year after legislation was passed. What we know about an IAN alert.

HART COUNTY, Ky. (ABC36 NEWS NOW) — Kentucky’s first-ever Ian Alert was issued Tuesday for a missing 5-year-old boy in Hart County — a system designed to help locate children with disabilities in ...

Kentucky State Police have offered condolences on the death of a 5-year-old, whose absence earlier triggered an IAN alert.

Kentucky health officials announced that four new cases of measles have been reported this week.

An "Ian Alert" covers gaps between other alerts and will use the same system as the AMBER Alert. It’s named for Ian Sousis, a 9-year-old boy who had autism. He ran away from the Children’s Home of ...