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    • National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

    Metadata Updated: May 23, 2024

    NamUs is the only national repository for missing, unidentified, and unclaimed persons cases. The program provides a singular resource hub for law enforcement, medical examiners, coroners, and investigating professionals. It is the only national database for missing, unidentified, and unclaimed persons that allows limited access to the public, empowering family members to take a more proactive role in the search for their missing loved ones.

    Access & Use Information

    Restricted: This dataset can only be accessed or used under certain conditions. License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date May 23, 2024
    Metadata Updated Date May 23, 2024
    Data Update Frequency R/PT1S

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from DOJ JSON

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date May 23, 2024
    Metadata Updated Date May 23, 2024
    Publisher Office of Justice Programs
    Maintainer
    Identifier 4330
    Data First Published 2007-12-31T00:00:00
    Language eng
    Data Last Modified 2024-04-01T00:00:00
    Rights Four levels of access to the NamUs data are available based on permissions granted.
    Public Access Level restricted public
    Data Update Frequency R/PT1S
    Bureau Code 011:21
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Metadata Catalog ID https://www.justice.gov/data.json
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Harvest Object Id 4b4ca329-0dba-4478-b233-6c9cb3b659e0
    Harvest Source Id 3290e90a-116f-42fc-86ac-e65521ef3b68
    Harvest Source Title DOJ JSON
    Homepage URL https://namus.nij.ojp.gov/
    Program Code 011:000
    Publisher Hierarchy Department of Justice > Office of Justice Programs
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 8bf640feb2cdece43cebe95a9daa1c2fa8b133a2f51cb80966168981f487250e
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    System of Records OJP:015
    Temporal 1902-01-01T00:00:00.0000000/2024-04-19T00:00:00.0000000

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