Proclamation 5563 --
National Child Identification and Safety Information Day, 1986
By
the President of the
A
Proclamation
The
American people are becoming increasingly aware of the incidence of abduction
and exploitation of the children of the
All
across our country, in towns, cities, and rural areas alike, corporations,
civic associations, church groups, and individual citizens are working together
to strengthen the American family. Too often, we neglect to warn and protect
these families from the most devastating blow they can suffer, the discovery
that a child is missing. Many communities have neighborhood watch programs to
help guard their possessions from theft. Should we do anything less for our
children? Protecting the lives of these innocents is a community-wide
responsibility. As part of this effort, many parents have established
fingerprint and other identification records that will aid in locating their
children should the unthinkable ever happen.
To
focus national attention on this problem during Halloween, when parents are
especially aware of possible threats to the safety of their children, the
Congress, by Public Law 99 - 520, has designated October 31, 1986, as
``National Child Identification and Safety Information Day'' and authorized and
requested the President to issue a proclamation in observance of this occasion.
Now,
Therefore, I, Ronald Reagan, President of the
In
Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this thirty-first day of October,
in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and eighty-six, and of the
Ronald
Reagan
[Filed
with the Office of the Federal Register,