John Tyson Jr

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John Tyson, Jr. is the District attorney for Mobile County, Alabama.

Mr. Tyson is notable for developing the Secret Safe Place For Newborns program. In this program, he agreed to not prosecute (in his jurisdiction) new mothers who abandon their unharmed newborns to the custody of medical professionals at designated hospital emergency rooms. The child must be less than three days old; the child must be unharmed. The mother is given identification so that she may reclaim her child within 30 days. This program was started after a rash of newborn infants died after being abandoned in the Mobile, Alabama area.

Mr. Tyson's office developed a replication manual for other district attorney's offices to use in implementing similar programs. More than 40 states have subsequently created similar programs. Hundreds of infants have been saved who might otherwise have been unsafely abandoned and died.

He lost to Troy King in the November 7 2006 general election for the position of Attorney General of Alabama.

Sources: "National Crime Prevention Council"

"Secret Safe Place for Newborns replication manual"