Any parent or caregiver, even a very loving and attentive one, can forget a child is in the back seat. Being especially busy or distracted or having a change from the usual routine increases the risk. 

Lock Your Car!

Keep your car locked when it is parked to prevent a curious child from entering when no one is around. Many hot car deaths have occurred when a child mistakenly locks himself inside. 

Take Action if You See a Child Alone in a Car!

Protecting children is everyone's business! If you see an unattended child in a car and are concerned, you should immediately call 911.  

If the child is not responsive or is in pain, immediately:

But in the last week, truth has scored a significant victory over falsehood. And we owe a debt of thanks to reporters like NBC’s Mariana Atencio and Jacob Soboroff for their continuing brave attempts to penetrate the Trump administration’s coordinated propaganda campaign and blackout to hide from us, the Red Cross and legal advocates the despicable dark side of their zero-tolerance policy.

The press’ determination to go to our southern border towns to the courts and detention centers, to travel to Mexico, El Salvador and Guatemala to interview would-be immigrants or those deported back to their home countries has provided not only the nation but the world with clear and compelling evidence of the disastrous consequences of the Trump administration’s calculated determination to use family separation as a tool to keep brown immigrant families from gaining sanctuary.

Likewise, we owe great thanks to civil rights attorney Jennifer Harbury for publicizing the heartbreaking audio a whistleblowing client of hers recorded inside a detention center. Millions have heard the desperate voices of children wrenched from their parents.

For those of you who had never heard of Jennifer Harbury, she knows better than most Americans the dreadful toll political and civil violence wreaks on the people of Latin America. And she, more than most, appreciates the multiple reasons these families have travelled so very far in search of asylum. Her husband, Efrain Bamaca Velasquez, a leader of the Mayan resistance in Guatemala, was tortured and murdered by their military. And she mounted a hunger strike to bring attention to his case.

Years later, she is helping to bring light to the plight of this new generation of the disappeared, the infants and children removed, sometimes under cover of darkness, to 13 different states, far from the comfort of their families.