Senate Bill 41 authorizes the creation of a turquoise alert, which would activate in the event of a missing person who is “an enrolled member, or a person eligible for enrollment in a federally recognized Indian nation, tribe or pueblo.” The “turquoise alert” would be similar to amber alerts, which are used for alerting child abductions.
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The legislation passed unanimously in the state House and Senate and was signed into law by Lujan Grisham on Monday as part of her efforts to “strengthen public safety.”
The legislation was championed by the Coalition to Stop Violence Against Native Women, which has campaigned for systems to improve the response times for reports of missing Native
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