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    • National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

    Metadata Updated: March 12, 2025

    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 March 12, 2025
    Data Update Frequency R/PT1S

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from DOJ JSON

    Other Data Resources

    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date May 23, 2024
    Metadata Updated Date March 12, 2025
    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
    Aicategory Not AI-ready
    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 22535c5b-6563-44eb-b3ab-8860b99a74f8
    Harvest Source Id 3290e90a-116f-42fc-86ac-e65521ef3b68
    Harvest Source Title DOJ JSON
    Internalcontactpoint {"@type": "vcard:Contact", "fn": "Bruce Whitlock", "hasEmail": "mailto:Bruce.W.Whitlock@usdoj.gov"}
    Jcamsystem {"acronym": "NamUs 2.0", "id": 1598, "name": "National Missing and Unidentified Persons System 2.0"}
    Homepage URL https://namus.nij.ojp.gov/
    Metadatamodified 5/22/2024 11:26:53 AM
    Program Code 011:000
    Publisher Hierarchy Department of Justice > Office of Justice Programs
    Sourceidentifier Federal Bureau of Investigation, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Bureau of Indian Affairs Missing and Murdered Unit - the National Archives
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash c9af384ac7734daa634aca9f06b4c6b33d4530018d4e59a8a6af92f19ccba735
    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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