News Amber Alert Runs Into Snags In Bay Area This page was last updated on Monday, September 2, 2002 From the San Francisco ChronicleSAN FRANCISCO, CA, September 1, 2002 - With a spate of child abductions putting California's fledgling Amber Alert system to the test, authorities acknowledged Friday that there are glitches that need to be worked out. On a day when another Amber Alert was issued -- this one for a Bakersfield girl believed kidnapped by her mother -- officials said almost 20 percent of the freeway signs in the Bay Area that flash "child abduction" messages...