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.

  • roude@lemmynsfw.com
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    15 days ago

    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.

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      15 days ago

      Pretty much.

      1. The amber alert system focuses mostly on children. This expands alerts to potential MMIW.
      2. This would provide a little more visibility for disappeared native women, in particular, which is a crime that local police forces wash their hands of.