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submitted 1 year ago by miguel@fedia.io to c/hopeposting@lemmy.world

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.

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[-] roude@lemmynsfw.com 10 points 1 year 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.

[-] miguel@fedia.io 3 points 1 year 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.
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