Operation Passageway

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• Operation Passageway - Operation Passageway. Beta test site for NamUs , where volunteers entered the initial missing persons cases. Later used to launch NamUs MP (Missing Persons)

OP was the prototype and initial data source for the current missing persons database. (NamUs)



It launched in August 2007 and completed in December 2008.



List of original team members (all volunteers) that completed the beta trial called Operation Passageway.





Kimberly Bruklis

Jennifer Cook

Terri Cook

Peter Duffy

Ra'Vae Edwards

Tina Glass

Laura Hood

Dillan Matthews

Lori Matthews

Todd Matthews

Wayne Leng

Sue Overton

Silvia Pettem

Kenna Quinet

Rose Sacchetti

Vickie Siedow

Tami Wilkerson



ALABAMA --- Todd Matthews
ALASKA --- Todd Matthews
ARIZONA --- Tina Glass
ARKANSAS -- Laura Hood
CALIFORNIA -- Wayne Leng & Vickie Siedow
COLORADO -- Silvia Pettem
CONNECTICUT -- Todd Matthews
DELAWARE --- Todd Matthews
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA --- Todd Matthews
FLORIDA -- Rose Sacchetti
GEORGIA -- Jennifer Cook
HAWAII --- Dillan Matthews
IDAHO --- Lori Matthews
ILLINOIS --- Kenna Quinet
INDIANA --- Kenna Quinet
IOWA -- Todd Matthews
KANSAS --- Dillan Matthews
KENTUCKY --- Lori Matthews
LOUISIANA -- Todd Matthews
MAINE --- Lori Matthews
MARYLAND --- Todd Matthews
MASSACHUSETTS --- Dillan Matthews
MICHIGAN --- Terri Cook
MINNESOTA --- Lori Matthews
MISSISSIPPI --- Todd Matthews
MISSOURI -- Ra'Vae Edwards
MONTANA --- Todd Matthews
NEBRASKA --- Patty Beeken
NEVADA --- Lori Matthews
NEW HAMPSHIRE --- Todd Matthews
NEW JERSEY --- Dillan Matthews
NEW MEXICO -- Jennifer Cook
NEW YORK --- Tami Wilkerson
NORTH CAROLINA - Dillan Matthews
NORTH DAKOTA --- Todd Matthews
OHIO -- Peter Duffy
OKLAHOMA --- Patty Beeken
OREGON -- Terri Cook
PENNSYLVANIA -- - Tami Wilkerson
RHODE ISLAND --- Todd Matthews
SOUTH CAROLINA -- Dillan Matthews
SOUTH DAKOTA --- Lori Matthews
TENNESSEE --- Todd Matthews
TEXAS --- Todd Matthews
UTAH --- Patty Beeken / Todd Matthews
VERMONT --- Todd Matthews
VIRGINIA --- Todd Matthews
WASHINGTON --- Sue Overton
WEST VIRGINIA --- Dillan Matthews
WISCONSIN -- Patty Beeken
WYOMING --- Patty Beeken


Operation Passageway launch message

- August 2007


I have had the honor to consult with www. NamUs .gov in the past and throughout the next several phases of it's development.

The UDRS (unidentified remains) system part of NamUs is up and running. It will be a bit longer before the missing side of things are up and running on the NamUs system.

In the mean time for the next few month I am co-sponsoring things by helping develop this test page www. OperationPassageway .- It will begin automatically comparing the missing entered into it to the unidentifieds listed in the UDRS system already up and running at NamUs .

The base system was developed by ORA, the same software company that created UDRS . I just had to help tweak it to meet the specifications for missing rather than the unidentified. The two systems can "talk" to each other.

So I'd love to get as many missing cases listed here as possible...it will be a great test of the system and might even kick out some results. The other advantage -- all missing cases entered here, and any other developmental data, will be transferred to the final system when it is up and running on NamUs at some point between late 2008 & 2009.

Operation Passageway will be complete and will cease to exist when the main system goes online, but the data gathered will be safely transferred to the final system. So not only is this a good test run of the UDRS comparative analysis ability, it will help impact the final product once complete. So entering cases on Operation Passageway is like a preregistry to the final national database, a head start on getting cases listed.

Anyone can enter cases into Operation Passageway for the time being. All the data entered is data already out before the public by law enforcement, Once data is entered and validated the system begins the comparative analysis between Operation Passageway and the UDRS component of NamUs . *Unidentified Decedent Reporting System - now known as UP (Unidentified Persons)

This is data entry only. Operation Passageway does not have Area Directors nor does it process any potential matches. It is simply a short term project that tests the real time activity of the UDRS system already in place.

What we do and learn here and now, will indeed effect the final system -- at long last a national database for missing & unidentified persons operated by the federal government.

-Todd Matthews