PHOENIX -- An Arizona bill to create a missing Indigenous or endangered person alert system passed the House with unanimous support and is now in the final stages of review by the Senate before heading to the governor.
HB2281 explicitly focuses on missing Native persons or non-Native endangered individuals and aims to address the growing crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous peoples in Arizona’s 22 federally recognized tribal nations. It would facilitate an emergency advisory similar to Amber alerts and Silver alerts.
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