Arizona lawmakers have unanimously passed “Emily’s Law,” a bill named for 14-year-old Emily Pike that would create a turquoise alert system for missing Indigenous people.
Arizona lawmakers have unanimously passed “Emily’s Law,” a bill named for 14-year-old Emily Pike that would create a turquoise alert system for missing Indigenous people.
Excuse my ignorance but how is this different than an amber alert?
My limited searching found that Amber alerts are generally controlled by regional police organizations. Indigenous tribes tend to not mesh well with local law enforcement, and as a result indigenous-related crimes tends to fall through the cracks due to lack of coordination / jurisdiction issues.
This sounds like an effort to allow alerts to be more (?) controlled by indigenous tribes, but still distributed in the manner that Amber alerts are.
Pretty much.
It seems to me, that it allows bigots to silence the turquoise alert, but keep the amber alert on. That way, they’re not bothered by missing “less-than-human” alerts. It makes no sense to me to make another alert type. Either we treat all people groups as equal humans, or we don’t deserve to be part of society. There is no in between. But… maybe I missed something in the linked site.