JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 Yellow roses lined Jacksonville\u2019s City Hall on Friday in honor of the people missing from our area. <\/p>\n
Project Cold Case focused on an especially vulnerable group, missing adults. <\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s still that gap for these older cases, particularly where that technology didn\u2019t exist and where they\u2019ve kind of fallen out of public eye. And this is an opportunity to bring them back into the public eye,\u201d said founder Ryan Backmann.<\/p>\n
>>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <<<<\/a><\/p>\n On top of connecting families of missing loved ones with each other and offering support, the organization wants to educate the public on long-term missing persons cases that can affect families. <\/p>\n Just ask Wilveria Sanders. Her then 25-year-old brother, Shelton, disappeared from South Carolina in 2001\u2014 a quarter century ago. <\/p>\n \u201cOne of the hardest realities is that missing adults are not always treated with the same urgency as missing children. People make assumptions. They think the person left willingly,\u201d said Sanders. <\/p>\n [DOWNLOAD: Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/a>]<\/p>\n Project Cold Case wants to take a more inclusive approach. <\/p>\n \u201cThere\u2019s a responsibility amongst all of us to make sure that we\u2019re not only focusing on one demographic, one age range, one gender, one race. There\u2019s families connected with every single one of these people,\u201d said Backmann. <\/p>\n Long after the headlines fade, it\u2019s important that families know how to keep the word out for their missing loved ones. <\/p>\n \u201cFlyers, keep them simple and consistent. Yard signs keep their faces visible in the community,\u201d said Sanders. \u201cSocial media pages post consistently and encourage sharing,\u201d she continued. <\/p>\n [SIGN UP: Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/a>] <\/p>\n Click here<\/a> to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, click here<\/a> to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and click here<\/a> to stream Action News Jax live.<\/p>\n Action News Jax Top Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 Yellow roses lined Jacksonville\u2019s City Hall on Friday in honor of the people missing from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162942,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[344,347,9024,28,348,116,351,118,117,1415,77848,349,18394,350,346,345],"class_list":["post-162941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-action-news-jax","tag-cbs47","tag-city-of-jacksonville","tag-florida","tag-fox30","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-fl","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-jacksonville-sheriffs-office","tag-missing-adults-day","tag-northeast-florida","tag-project-cold-case","tag-southeast-georgia","tag-wfox","tag-wjax"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}