Hours went by before an emergency alert was issued. Kentucky Rep. Candy Massaroni, the sponsor of HB 682, said when the alert was issued at 1:15 p.m. on June 4, Sousis was already dead.

The alert is named after Ian Sousis, an autistic child whose body was found in the Ohio River after he was reported missing from the Northern Kentucky Children's Home in Covington in 2022.

The search for a 5-year-old Hart County boy who wandered away from his home triggered an IAN Alert last week. It marked the first time it’s ever been used in Kentucky.

A new alert designed to help save the lives of children with autism is now in effect in Kentucky. The alert is called an Ian Alert.It’s named for Ian Sousis, a 9-year-old boy who had autism. He ...

An IAN Alert was issued in Kentucky on Tuesday for a missing 5-year-old boy, and now troopers say he has been found dead. The boy, Silas, walked away from his home in Cub Run, Kentucky around 8 a ...

A 2024 bill paved the way for the IAN Alert, named after 9-year-old Ian Sousis, who drowned in 2022 in the Ohio River after slipping away from the Children’s Home of Northern Kentucky.

Kentucky's IAN Alert system issued its first alert after Silas Chearer went missing. State police found the 5-year-old child dead hours after the alert was activated. Lawmakers pledged to improve ...

A young boy disappeared in Kentucky early Tuesday, prompting a statewide alert, and was found dead hours later. A preliminary autopsy showed that 5-year-old Silas Chearer died from drowning.

Chearer's disappearance prompted an "Ian Alert" across Kentucky before he was found. If you're not familiar, the alert was signed into law last year in Kentucky. It's for missing children, but ...