Here’s how missing person reports are filed [Video]

YORK COUNTY, Maine — When people go missing, members of the community often rally together to try and help, but it also leaves people wondering what the process is for when police decide someone who has disappeared is officially a missing person. 

Often another concern people have is, which posts can the public trust if so many fake scam posts are circulating? 

Chief Deputy Jeremy Forbes of the York County Sheriff’s Office says the first step investigating a missing persons case is determining the reason for the disappearance through communicating with friends and family. “We have to weigh the Constitutional rights of a 20 year old. Are they missing or want to get away?”

Before putting someone’s face out in the public, Forbes said they have to determine whether it may be mental-health related and then consider …