School Issues Warnings After Kidnap : Aftermath: Parents and students are given safety tips in the wake of a 6-year-old girl’s abduction as she walked home from school Thursday.

Responding to the abduction of a 6-year-old girl walking home from Iva Meairs Elementary School, the Westminster School District on Friday prepared a special newsletter for parents and organized an assembly for students to underline safety tips for children who walk to and from school.

Meanwhile, police continued their investigation but said they did not have any new leads on a man who grabbed the girl Thursday afternoon and forced her into his car after offering her candy. She was released unharmed an hour and a half later, police said.

“You are encouraged to help us by reinforcing safety rules at home often, to show that you are aware and in support of the staff effort,” read the one-page newsletter prepared by district Superintendent Gail Wickstrom.

Parents should have a secret code word “only you and your child know. Tell your child that he/she may go with only a person who knows that word,” the newsletter said.

Children should be reminded to walk with other children who live nearby, and parents should “check for safety and possible changes in traffic patterns” along a child’s walking route, the superintendent advised.

On Friday some Meairs staff members walked with children along their routes home.

Westminster Police Officer Mitchell Phillips spoke about “stranger danger” during a 30-minute morning assembly at the school. Standing among the school’s more than 500 students, he warned the children to be careful to keep strangers from standing closer than an arm’s length away, a precaution police use.

“Don’t let people into your ‘safety zone,’ ” he admonished the group of kindergartners through fifth-graders. “Hey, this is what you do: If you don’t know them, then you don’t get near them.”

Periodic warnings are necessary because “these kids are tempted every day,” said Mitchell, one of two Westminster officers who visit schools in the district to give talks on safety, drugs and gangs.

Garden Grove police said they did not have a motive for the abduction. The abductor is described as Latino, about 30 with short, straight black hair and a mustache. He has a ruddy complexion with a half- to one-inch scar on his right cheek.