The agency announced it is launching a new alert system similar to Amber Alerts for missing children. California and some other states have already adopted alerts for missing Indigenous persons.
The Federal Communications Commission announced its plans to launch a new nationwide alert code for missing and endangered Indigenous people who do not fit the criteria for an Amber Alert or Silver Alert. Here, family and friends of the missing and murdered march around the California State Capitol at the second annual Missing and Murdered Indigenous People Summit and Day of Action in Sacramento, Calif., on Feb. 13.
The new code will help tribal, state and local law enforcement agencies broadcast alerts for missing persons who do not meet the criteria for an ahead of last Wednesday's unanimous vote, Lavina Willie-Nez, Amber Alert coordinator for the Navajo Nation Police Department in Arizona, said that each time an Indigenous person goes missing,"we lose a part of our heritage and culture."
Last year, more than 188,000 people went missing in the U.S. who did not qualify for an Amber Alert, according to the FCC. Nearly 10,600 American Indian/Alaska Native persons were reported missing, of which roughly 3,300 were 18 or older, according to“Time is always of the essence with these cases.
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