How Locora works
Locora is a register of two kinds of report, and a careful process for connecting them. This page describes what actually happens, including the parts that are slower or more limited than you might hope.
You file a report
You need an account and a confirmed email address. That is not bureaucracy: an unconfirmed address costs nothing to create, and without the requirement one script could fill the review queue with fabricated cases faster than a person could clear them.
Nothing you file is published at this point. It goes into a queue.
A person reviews it
A Locora reviewer reads the report and decides whether to publish it. They may publish it, mark it as being checked, or decline it — and declining requires them to write a reason, which you are shown in full.
How long this takes depends on how many reviewers are active and how many reports are waiting. It is not instant, and Locora will not pretend otherwise.
Reviewers look for matches
Missing-person reports and found-person reports are filed independently, by people who have never met. Locora ranks found-person reports against a missing case by things that can be checked — whether the age ranges overlap, whether the city is the same, whether the timing is possible — and shows a reviewer why each one appeared.
That ranking is a shortlist, not a verdict. A reviewer reads both cases in full before linking anything, and a link is recorded as a possibility that has not been confirmed.
A match is confirmed, or ruled out
When a link is made, both reporters are told immediately that there is a possible match and that it is unconfirmed. If a reviewer then establishes it is the same person, both cases are closed and taken off the public feed. If it is not, both go back on the feed and both reporters are told it was ruled out.
No software confirms a match. A false match here is not a bad recommendation — it is a family being told something untrue about a missing relative — so a person makes that call, every time.
What Locora is not
It is not an emergency service
It does not search for anybody
It does not identify people from photographs
Ready to file a report?
Both kinds of report take about five minutes. You can also read how Locora handles your information first.