Talk:Code Adam

Examples

The two examples of a description and ending announcement I don't think serve a purpose. They come across as quite obvious.--Crossmr 04:19, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

I agree. This is a good article, chock full of information; but it's not written in an encyclopedic tone. The sample scripts of what a Wal-Mart employee might say are appropriate for an employee manual, but utterly unnecessary in an encyclopedia entry. 66.17.118.195 15:13, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

I don't agree with these comments. The "encyclopedic tone" requirement pertains to the tone in which information is conveyed, not to the amount of information present. Seems to me one could only address these complaints by deleting information from the article, and I don't see why that is either a good thing or required. 75.192.214.7 14:21, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

There is nothing wrong with removing words from an article if they don't do anything to improve it. Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of all human knowledge and tons of articles have content in them which shouldn't be.--Crossmr 15:14, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

Legal Issues

I'm just wondering if anyone knows who grants the authority to lockdown a shopping complex. Not allowing someone to leave could be viewed as false imprisonment. Does anyone know of any cases where this has been an issue? 65.96.38.93 (talk) 06:38, 20 March 2008 (UTC) Actually, I worked at a Lowes where this was an issue. I was a cashier and they were not allowing people to leave due to a code adam. I went and unlocked the doors and allowed people to leave, but i was fired for it. I simply did it because it IS illegal to detain unless you are an officer of the law. At the time though, my actions were not legally motivated as much as they were motivated by my contempt for any sort of authority whatsoever. I am very much a "you cannot tell me what to do" type of person. Personally it is my opinion that if a child is stupid enough to wander off, they deserve to be lost. But back to your question. I do remember reading that it is illegal to detain a person or people unless you are a police officer. Or federal officer. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.12.49.201 (talk) 21:26, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

I'm thinking this article really needs a controversy or criticism section - surely there are reliable sources pointing out that:

Locking the doors and "turning people away" definitely counts as false imprisonment.

The prospect of being unofficially held, reported to law enforcement and presumably questioned intensely afterwards (by the sounds of it even if you exercise your rights and walk out you're likely to be picked up later) is not much of an incentive to do the decent human thing and accompany a lost child to a help desk or security guard. The automatic suspicion is appalling! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.153.12.191 (talk) 23:34, 4 January 2013 (UTC)

Why is "missing child" in quotation marks? Are they not really missing?

I changed the inappropriate use of quotation marks in the phrase "a 'missing child' safety program." PlaysInPeoria (talk) 18:52, 15 September 2017 (UTC)