(Photo Provided with Release Courtesy of State Representative Robert Leadbeter)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Harrisburg, PA) According to a release in Harrisburg yesterday from State Representative Robert Leadbeter’s office, Leadbeter (R-Columbia) was joined by family members of Aiden Ha, legislators and advocates for a press conference yesterday to announce the formal introduction of House Bill 2102 –known as Aiden’s Law, and urge continued support. The initiative that Leadbeter is championing, is named after Aiden Ha, who was a 6-year-old nonverbal and autistic child from Columbia County who was tragically found dead in a river in October. The legislation from Leadbeter would create a Purple Alert system in Pennsylvania, which is similar to the Amber Alert for abducted children, the Silver Alert for missing older adults and the Green Alert for missing at-risk veterans, as the Purple Alert system would rapidly notify the law enforcement and the public when an individual with certain intellectual, cognitive or developmental disabilities goes missing.