why is it called amber alert

The Amber Alert is called that in memory of Amber Rene Hagerman, a 9-year-old girl who was abducted and murdered in Arlington, Texas, in 1996. The alert system was created as an emergency notification system to help find abducted children quickly by broadcasting information to the public. "AMBER" also stands for "America's Missing: Broadcast Emergency Response," which is a backronym created in honor of Amber Hagerman's tragic case. This system originated in the United States and is now used widely to rapidly disseminate information about child abductions to aid in their safe recovery.