Opinion ID: 1491463
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Heading: Failure to Remove the Poster

Text: One of the missing person posters made its way into the Missing Children's Network display case in the Lee's Summit Wal-Mart. The Missing Children's Network is a partnership program between Wal-Mart and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC). As part of the agreement, the NCMEC packages approved posters and ships them to Wal-Mart stores each month. To protect against inaccurate information, Wal-Mart's policy is to display only those posters provided by the NCMEC and to keep the display case locked. Should an unauthorized poster be placed in the display, it is Wal-Mart's policy that the poster be taken down immediately. Wal-Mart headquarters mandated that its associates are expected to maintain the display cases and keep the displays updated. The unauthorized poster created by Angela Miles and her family was not immediately removed from the Wal-Mart display. There was evidence that as many as three different persons contacted Wal-Mart managers on at least four occasions regarding the poster, beginning on the Sunday of Labor Day weekend. Even if the poster was initially true, there was also evidence that the poster was not removed for days after Lauren was returned to Angela and ceased to be missing.