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Blayne Alexander

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Dateline NBC
Talking Dateline: Bringing Jay Home

It is.

Dateline NBC
Talking Dateline: Bringing Jay Home

It is.

Dateline NBC
Talking Dateline: Bringing Jay Home

And

Dateline NBC
Talking Dateline: Bringing Jay Home

I would say it seems like a common sense type of thing because if you want to find where a young person is, not to sound old, if you're trying to find a young person, but social media is the way.

Dateline NBC
Talking Dateline: Bringing Jay Home

I mean, right?

Dateline NBC
Talking Dateline: Bringing Jay Home

Like he was communicating through Snapchat the way that most of us would communicate via text, right?

Dateline NBC
Talking Dateline: Bringing Jay Home

And so that is easily the core.

Dateline NBC
Talking Dateline: Bringing Jay Home

quickest digital footprint, the quickest way to figure out where they are, who they've been talking to, what they've been doing.

Dateline NBC
Talking Dateline: Bringing Jay Home

And, you know, in talking with Mr. Jimmy, he was just like, this was a constant just source of torture for them because they knew something had happened.

Dateline NBC
Talking Dateline: Bringing Jay Home

It wasn't this question of, oh, gosh, maybe he's, no, they were like, something's happened to our child.

Dateline NBC
Talking Dateline: Bringing Jay Home

Yeah.

Dateline NBC
Talking Dateline: Bringing Jay Home

They're waiting day after day after day after day.

Dateline NBC
Talking Dateline: Bringing Jay Home

They want to bring him home.

Dateline NBC
Talking Dateline: Bringing Jay Home

And they're fighting this kind of battle of we know our son is always online.

Dateline NBC
Talking Dateline: Bringing Jay Home

We know he's always out here posting.

Dateline NBC
Talking Dateline: Bringing Jay Home

Let us get access and we can tell you exactly what happened.

Dateline NBC
Talking Dateline: Bringing Jay Home

And that was just so hard for them.

Dateline NBC
Talking Dateline: Bringing Jay Home

It's not like anybody's asking for, hey, we need to just be able to get into everybody's social media at all times.

Dateline NBC
Talking Dateline: Bringing Jay Home

No.

Dateline NBC
Talking Dateline: Bringing Jay Home

If a person goes missing and they're underage, right, and we're talking about a missing person's case where days count, where moments count, hours count, then let us in.