Topeka ? Kansas Amber Alert notifications now can be made to e-mail addresses, giving law enforcement officials another way to alert the public when a child is abducted.

“It is my hope that this new option for Amber Alert distribution will allow us to get more eyes looking for an abducted child so that the child can be returned to its family safely and swiftly,” Atty. Gen. Phill Kline said Thursday.

The notification, sent to the computer or other device capable of receiving e-mail messages, will provide detailed information about the abduction and will direct recipients to the Amber Web site for additional information and updates.

Kline said not only would the new system reach people without access to radio or television during the day, but businesses and the media immediately would have all available information in writing to pass on to their employees and customers.

Amber Alerts will continue to be distributed through the Emergency Alert System to radio and television stations across the state, as well as weather radios through the National Weather Service and through the thousands of Kansas Lottery retailers.

The Kansas Amber Plan is a partnership between the state’s law enforcement and broadcasting communities designed to disseminate information about child abductions to the general public in the shortest time possible.

To date, there have been 215 successful Amber Alert recoveries nationwide and nine in Kansas since the establishment of the Kansas plan in 2002.

Those wanting to sign up for the e-mail alerts can go the Amber Web site at www.ksamber.org.