A Feather Alert will act much like an Amber or Silver Alert, providing law enforcement with the resources they need to provide the public with timely information to help recover a missing indigenous person.
Tribal leaders and members of law enforcement gathered at the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department headquarters for a roundtable discussion on a new law aimed at finding missing indigenous people.
The new law, known as the Feather Alert, was co-authored by Assemblyman James Ramos of San Bernardino. "The state of California is currently number five on the list of all states in the nation of unresolved murders and investigations of Native American women and persons from Indian reservations and Indian communities," he said.
The California Highway Patrol, which oversees the alert system, will activate it based on that criteria.
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