Every report is reviewed by a person
Find what matters.
Locora is where families report a missing person, where someone who has found an unidentified person can say so, and where the two are carefully brought together. Reports are checked before they go public, and contact details are never shown to strangers.
Before you start
Locora is not an emergency service. If someone is in immediate danger, contact your local emergency number and the police first — then file here, so anybody who might recognise them can.
Nothing is published instantly. A person reads every report before it appears, and how long that takes depends on how many reviewers are active.
Two ways to help
Locora holds two kinds of report. They are filed independently, by different people who have never met, and a reviewer is what connects them.
Someone is missing
File a report with their details, where they were last seen, and a photograph. Once a reviewer publishes it, anyone can see it — but only you and Locora's reviewers ever see your contact details.
- Takes about five minutes
- Up to five photographs
- You are told the moment anything changes
You have found someone
If you have found a person who cannot say who they are or where they belong, record what you know. A photograph is optional here on purpose — sometimes publishing one is not the safe choice.
- An age range, not a guess at an exact age
- Where they are now stays private
- Photographs are optional
How Locora works
Four steps, with a person involved at every one that matters.
Report
You file what you know. Nothing is published yet — the report goes into a queue, not straight onto the site.
Review
A reviewer checks the details and publishes, asks for more, or declines with a reason you can read.
Match
Reviewers compare missing and found reports and link the ones that may describe the same person. Both families are told it is only a possibility.
Reunite
When a link is confirmed, the case is closed and comes off the public feed. Nothing is decided automatically.
See it work, end to end
One fictional case, from the moment it is filed to the moment it closes. It runs for 2:34, is narrated and captioned, and you can skip to any chapter or mute it.
2:34 · 10 chapters · narrated
Follow one fictional case from the moment it is filed, through review and matching, to the point where it closes — and see exactly which parts a person decides.
Chapters in this walkthrough
- Someone needs help
- Two kinds of report
- Filing a report
- Details and photographs
- Into the queue
- A person reviews it
- The other side
- Looking for a match
- Both families are told
- The case closes
What happens after you file
The part most services leave vague. Here is the whole of it.
It goes into a queue, not onto the site
Nothing you file is published automatically. It waits for a person to read it — which is what stops this becoming a noticeboard anybody can post anything to.
You are told what was decided, and why
Published, or declined with a written reason you can read in full. A decline is not a dead end: you can correct what was wrong and file again.
You hear from us when it matters, and not otherwise
A status change, and a possible match. That is the entire list. Locora does not send anything else, because a notification you learn to ignore is one you will miss when it counts.
Your contact details stay yours throughout
The phone number on your report reaches Locora's reviewers and nobody else. Strangers reading your case never receive it — the server does not send it to them.
Locora is not an emergency service. If somebody is in immediate danger, contact your local emergency number and the police first. Filing here is something to do as well, not instead — and it is worth doing even once they are involved, because a stranger who recognises a face is not someone the police can reach.
Cases open now
Take a moment to look. Recognising one face is the whole reason this exists.
No published cases yet
Nothing has been published on this Locora instance so far. When a report is reviewed and published, it will appear here.
Why you can trust this with a case
Locora holds some of the most sensitive information a person can hand over. These are the rules the software actually enforces, not a statement of intent.
Contact details are never public
A phone number or email on a report is visible to you and to Locora's reviewers, and to nobody else. The server withholds them — it is not a matter of the page choosing not to display them.
A person reviews every report
Nothing reaches the public feed automatically, and no match is ever confirmed by software. A wrong match on a missing-person case is not a bad recommendation; it is a family being told something untrue.
Resolved cases come down
Once a case is closed, it leaves the public feed and its photographs are removed. Continuing to show someone's face after they have been found serves nobody.
Someone is looking for them.
Whether you are searching for a person or have found one, the sooner it is recorded, the sooner the two can meet.