Family tracking
Device → caregiver
GPS location, geofences, and alerts are normally provided to a parent, guardian, or care team.
But not a Direct, Child-Initiated Law Enforcement incident.
Examples: Gabb Watch, Jiobit, family GPS products
Not another GPS tracker.
The child should be able to start the response.
A tracker can tell someone where a device is. Sentinel Guard and Adams Watch are designed to let a child in danger discreetly begin a protected Law Enforcement response.
Conventional questionWhere is the device?
The question we are answeringCan the child discreetly begin the response?
Functioning software prototype
Purpose-built wearable vision
Patent pending
The national reality
Children are still going missing.
The scale is not abstract to the professionals, advocates, and families who confront it.
323,767
NCIC missing-person records involving people ages 0–17 were entered during 2025.
FBI, 2025 NCIC Missing Person and Unidentified Person Statistics ↗
What this number means
It counts NCIC records entered—not unique children and not trafficking cases. Missing-person records span different circumstances, and the same person can be entered more than once.
The number is presented to show the continuing scale of missing-child reporting, not to equate every missing-child record with abduction, exploitation, or trafficking.
To those who have lived this work
You have seen the search begin with incomplete information. You have seen a family reconstructing the last known moment. You have seen time become the adversary.
The question is not whether another locator can be built. The question is whether the response can begin sooner.The public technology landscape
Important systems exist.
But they solve different problems.
Our September 2026 review of publicly available materials found mature products and programs for family tracking, wandering recovery, emergency sharing, agency monitoring, and missing-person notification.
Wandering recovery
Reported missing → RF search
A caregiver reports a vulnerable person missing; trained responders then use specialized equipment to search.
But not a Direct, Child-Initiated Law Enforcement incident.
Examples: Project Lifesaver, Care Trak
Emergency sharing
Caregiver → responders
A caregiver activates an emergency feature or shares live location with a predefined response group.
But not a Direct, Child-Initiated Law Enforcement incident.
Example: AngelSense First Responders
Agency GPS monitoring
Wearer → caregiver and agency
A caregiver and participating agency may access GPS information through an app or agency dashboard.
But not a Direct, Child-Initiated Law Enforcement incident.
Example: Theora Connect + Theora ESP
Identity and notification
Reported missing → network notified
After a loved one is reported missing, a service distributes information to authorities and supports identification.
But not a Direct, Child-Initiated Law Enforcement incident.
Example: MedicAlert Safe & Found
These systems perform valuable work. This comparison is about architecture and information flow—not a judgment of their effectiveness.
The recurring starting point
Someone other than the endangered child must first recognize the emergency, report it, or share the location.
But, what if the child could begin the protected response path?The fifth model
Victim-initiated.
Law Enforcement-facing.
Caregiver-location protected.
What our public review did not identify
We did not identify a publicly documented system combining all four elements below in one child-safety response architecture.
Until Now!
This is a scoped comparison of the public materials cited below—not a universal market claim, freedom-to-operate opinion, or patentability opinion.
What Native Brigade created
A proposed connection across that missing path.
The child’s discreet means to begin the alert.
A proposed purpose-built, patent-pending wearable—not a cellphone application.
The proposed Law Enforcement response platform.
Designed to organize the alert, real-time device location, identity, photograph, and essential medical information.
The caregiver receives status—never location.
No map. No movement. No nearby agencies. No Law Enforcement response activity.
Built: Functioning software prototype
Protected: Patent pending
Next: Hardware engineering, independent testing, challenge, approvals, and operational validation
The page explains the difference. The prototype reveals the whole.
Now, experience the response path.
The full idea is not any one feature. It is the relationship between a child’s deliberate activation (Sentinel Guard™), Adams Watch, Law Enforcement information, and the caregiver privacy boundary—working together in real time.
Demonstration password
NativeBrigadeTest
Enter the Prototype
Fictional demonstration • No emergency services contacted
Why this deserves examination
The category is real.
The gap deserves scrutiny.
The U.S. Department of Justice already funds law-enforcement and public-safety efforts using locative technologies for missing people with dementia or developmental disabilities. The public-safety need for responsible locating technology is established.
Sentinel Guard and Adams Watch ask a different question: can the protected response begin with the endangered person’s own discreet activation—before the ordinary chain of discovery, notification, and information gathering?
DOJ Bureau of Justice Assistance: Kevin and Avonte Program ↗We are not asking serious professionals to accept this vision without examination.
We are asking them to examine it.
Public evidence reviewed
See the source material.
Every comparison above is connected to public source material. Product capabilities may change; these sources should be rechecked before each formal publication.
View the nine primary sources
01FBI2025 NCIC Missing Person and Unidentified Person Statistics
02Project LifesaverProgram and RF search model
03Care TrakCaregiver and Law Enforcement RF locating model
04AngelSenseCaregiver-activated First Responders sharing
05Life360 / JiobitCare Team location access
06Theora CareWearable, caregiver app, and agency dashboard
07GabbGuardian GPS access and designated SOS contact
08MedicAlertSafe & Found missing-person notification model
09U.S. Department of JusticeKevin and Avonte Program
The next conversation should be serious.
Examine it.
Challenge it.
Help determine what it can become.
Native Brigade invites Law Enforcement, federal professionals, legal and policy leaders, child-safety advocates, organizations, technical experts, and funders to request a confidential briefing.
Sentinel Guard™ • Adams Watch™ • Patent Pending