One aspect of the Chain Network is the Child Chain Registry. The idea for the Child Chain Registry started years ago when Duff and Aguillard were sheriff’s deputies working together in uniform patrol. One afternoon patrol officers were dispatched information that a child had been abducted by a relative and was heading towards the interstate highway. Aguillard and Duff were patrolling the area where the suspect was believed to be heading. A description of the abductor’s vehicle and its occupants was given to deputies, but several cars matching that description were all around. Aguillard and Duff realized that if a photograph of the abducted child had been dispatched to deputies with the call, they could have spotted the child in no time. The idea for the Child Chain Registry was born.

In recent years, Duff and Aguillard have worked a number of investigations involving teenagers who ran away from home with people they had met online (often an adult). In most of those cases the parents were shocked and unaware that their child had developed an online relationship.  These parents were also not prepared to assist law enforcement in compiling the basic information needed to begin the investigation. This lack of preparation caused agents to spend precious time gathering information on the missing child before beginning the process of finding the child.

Consider that the nation-wide Amber Alert System was created to provide critical information to law enforcement and to the public as quickly as possible. The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children explains that "time is the enemy of the missing child."  The Child Chain Registry seeks to compliment the Amber Alert concept by keeping information readily available and preparing families for such emergencies. The concept of keeping an updated safety information folder for each of our children has been around for quite some time. Typically these child safety folders containing pictures and updated child information end up buried in a closet, misplaced forever. The Child Chain Registry offers that same folder, digitally stored in a safe and secure manner that can be accessed within seconds from anywhere in the world. Should an emergency arise, a missing child’s current information, including pictures of the child, can be emailed to every state police officer, sheriff’s deputy and police officer on patrol in the abduction area within seconds. Registering a child in the Child Chain Registry means being prepared and having the tools in place to find a child should the unthinkable happen.