A juvenile is the subject of a missing-juvenile notice.
The notice concerns a missing juvenile.
What Investigators Know So Far
Beyond the basic physical description and the detail that she was last spotted walking alongside a female friend in Inverness, the sheriff's office has not released further information about the circumstances surrounding Esposito's disappearance. The notice does not specify what she was wearing, nor does it offer additional context about where in Inverness she was last seen.
A local sheriff’s bulletin and a Florida Missing Child Alert are separate tools. A state alert requires the child to be under 18, a well-founded belief by law enforcement that the child faces danger of death or serious bodily injury, a detailed description or photograph, and a recommendation from the local agency, FDLE’s criteria state. The existence of a local notice—or the absence of a statewide alert—does not by itself show whether those criteria were met.
The case remains an open runaway juvenile investigation, and no update on whether Esposito has since been located has been made public.
Florida law requires law enforcement to notify on-duty officers and other agencies with jurisdiction in the county when a missing-child report is filed, and to submit it for inclusion in state and national crime databases within two hours. The law also requires a monthly review of missing-child records in those databases, Florida’s missing-person statute says. Those requirements concern the handling of a report; a public notice does not, on its own, reveal the status of database entries.
How to Help or Share Information
Anyone with information about Kylie Esposito's whereabouts is asked to contact Detective Reeder with the Citrus County Sheriff's Office, listed as the point of contact for the case. Reeder can be reached by phone at 352-560-2052 or by email at [email protected].
