NORFOLK, Va. — UPDATE: Tiffany Maria Jackson has been found safe, according to Norfolk Police Department.
A CODI Alert has been issued for a missing girl last seen in Norfolk Thursday morning.
Tiffany Maria Jackson, 12, was last seen around 6:45 a.m. on Thursday at her home on Amherst Street in Norfolk. Police say her disappearance poses a credible threat to her health and safety.
Norfolk police first reported her missing Friday morning. At 12:55 p.m. on Friday, state police issued a CODI Alert regarding her disappearance.
Police released the following description of Jackson: 5'3" and 125 pounds; black hair and brown eyes; last seen wearing a school uniform consisting of dark blue long pants, a light blue shirt and her hair in medium length dreadlocks.
As News 3 investigator Jessica Larche has reported, the CODI Alert applies to a missing or endangered child who “is 17 years of age or younger or is currently enrolled in a secondary school in the Commonwealth, regardless of age.” The child’s “whereabouts are unknown” and their disappearance is “under suspicious circumstances or poses a credible threat as determined by law enforcement to the safety and health of the child and under such other circumstances as deemed appropriate by the Virginia State Police.”
The alert is named after Codi Bigsby, whose disappearance prompted calls from the community for the establishment of a missing child to address gaps in the AMBER Alert criteria.
Police are asking anyone who has seen her or may know where she is to please call 911.
