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Apr 7, 2009 7:35 am US/Central

Bill Would Require Search For Some Missing Adults

Reporting
Pat Kessler
ST. PAUL (WCCO) ― It took a year after he went missing in the Idaho mountains for Jon Francis' family to find his body. The family searched on their own, after law enforcement told them it was hopeless.

"He came to us and he said, 'David and Linda, you need to give your son up to the mountain,'" David Francis said. "They packed up and left, so the burden of finding our son fell on the family."

That's why David Francis formed the Jon Francis Foundation, which is trying to change Minnesota law to force a search for some missing children under 21.

"'Ma'am, your son has a right to be missing,'" recalled Annette Swanson, of Marshall, Minn. Her son, Brandon Swanson, 19, went missing in southwestern Minnesota last May, after calling his parents for help. Local police told his mother there was nothing they could do.

"Brandon is not choosing to be missing," Annette Swanson said. "Our reality is that Brandon is missing and he is presumed dead."

A bill in the state legislature would require law enforcement to search for young adults, for the following reasons, which are not limited to if the disappearance is not voluntary, if there's evidence of a medical condition or if the person is lost in the wilderness.

David Francis calls it the "take no excuses" law. "Missing persons are missing persons. Missing adult children are still children," he said.

Minnesota lawmakers expect to vote on the missing adult children bill after this week's holiday break.

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