It was the death of 9-year-old Ian Sousis in June 2022 that led to House Bill 682. Sousis, who was autistic, was at the Children’s Home of Northern Kentucky in Covington when he left around 9:30 ...

An IAN Alert was issued in Kentucky on Tuesday for a missing 5-year-old boy, and now troopers say he has been found dead. The boy, Silas, walked away from his home in Cub Run, Kentucky around 8 a ...

An IAN Alert was issued by Kentucky State Police around 9:35 a.m. Tuesday that said Silas Shearer was seen walking away from his home on July 15, 2025, at approximately 8 a.m. in Cub Run, Kentucky.

The alert is named after Ian Sousis, an autistic child whose body was found in the Ohio River after he was reported missing from the Northern Kentucky Children's Home in Covington in 2022.

The new Kentucky IAN Alert system, created to protect vulnerable children, was used for the first time after 5-year-old Silas Chearer went missing in Cub Run.