'Kellys Law' Looks For Changes to Missing Persons Database

A petition to change laws governing the national missing persons database is being spearheaded by friends and family of missing police cadet Kelly Rothwell.

They created a petition on change.org seeking to require the National Crime Information Center to include information for missing adults aged 21 and older. The database includes information about missing persons aged 20 and younger.

The change is important because "having the most complete listing of missing persons across the country would increase the chances of either finding the missing person alive and safe, or recovering their remains and giving their family the answers they so desperately need and deserve," creators wrote on the change.org petition.

The petition has more than 1,300 signatures and needs to get to 5,000 before organizers send it to Congressman Gus Bilirakis.

Rothwell, missing since March 12, is not listed in the national database. 

Donna Scharrett had lunch with Rothwell at a Clearwater Chili's restaurant the day she went missing. Scharrett said Rothwell planned to break up with her live in boyfriend David Perry. 

Perry, moved back to New York the weekend Rothwell vanished. He was named a  in June.

There have been vigils and other memorials honoring Rothwell since she disappeared. Scharrett recently posted on the Bring Kelly Rothwell Home Facebook page:

"Thanksgiving was always Kelly's favorite holiday ~ in her honor, and weather permitting, I'm going to release chinese sky lanterns from the Courtney Campbell Causeway on Thanksgiving night. With this release, I'll send up wishes that answers are soon known to so many who are in need of them."