You should check with the department or officer in charge of your case before doing this, unless you have good reason to believe they're botching it. The public is certainly a resource that's considered in missing persons cases, but it has disadvantages and the people in charge of the case may not be involving the public for good reason.<p>Depending on their local rules, they may be obligated to investigate any leads coming in from the public, and that can become a massive drain on resources that would be better spent on following up leads they may already have. Psychics, intuitives, and other "helpers" are kind of a pain in the ass this way. Depending on the case, if somebody says, "I've helped find four other people, and last night I dreamt that so-and-so was alive, and cold, and in a big steel pipe in the woods", then the people in charge of the case get to spend a bunch of resources checking out culverts in forested areas. Public missing persons cases always bring out these folks.<p>If LEO does want to get the public involved, they often have even better tools available, including reverse-911 text alerts.<p>They may also be operating with a different set of information than they're sharing with you, and may be withholding some information for good reason. They may already have a working theory and <i>not</i> releasing details about what the missing person was last seen wearing may be helpful for sorting out good leads from bad ones.<p>All that said, law enforcement isn't infallible and mistakes are made in missing persons cases, even by well-intentioned and experienced people. And certainly the grief and frustration and helplessness experienced by friends and family during cases like this should be given more consideration than perhaps it usually is.