TBF, my assumption for most Amber alerts is a father either being denied rights, or trying to take his child away from a very bad environment. Legit abductions are the corner cases. So many times, it'll turn out to be a custody dispute, that they're like crying, "wolf," now. The common case is a mother using her new hubby, the state, to deal with that used to a private matter. A hundred years ago, people would probably have looked at you like you were an alien, trying to explain how a parent could be committing a crime by taking their own child.

Corruption of this nature in an outfit handling the alert middleware, and maybe backend, is as surprising as a Clinton-related, "suicide." Filter out, or distribute to a smaller, farther-away group, alerts that your cronies are in on.