Ramos called for more resources and awareness about the Feather Alert, according to a livestream from the event. 1, hosted a roundtable on the bill in Downey this week with local officials, law enforcement, and tribal members. It’s similar to the Amber Alert for a missing child.Īssemblymember James Ramos, D-San Bernardino, who authored the measure, known as AB 1314, that took effect Jan.

Organizers will also discuss the state’s newest emergency notification system, the Feather Alert, which tells the public and law enforcement in real time when Indigenous people go missing under suspicious circumstances. “The unfortunate reality is that many of our tribal communities feel under threat - worried that their loved ones, their mothers, their daughters - will go missing, will be lost to violence and murder. In a statement, Attorney General Rob Bonta, who will speak at the Soboba event, called for efforts to support public safety for tribal communities, studying challenges the communities face and building relationships with tribal members “to ensure their voices are heard.” for unsolved Native American homicides and homicides not investigated, officials said. but only 116 of those cases had been logged into the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System.Ĭalifornia ranks seventh in the U.S. Reports show that investigations into violent crimes against Indigenous communities are lacking.Īs of 2016, the National Crime Information Center reported 5,712 missing American Indian and Alaska Native women and girls in the U.S. Indian Country has been “gripped by an epidemic of missing or murdered Indigenous people, whose cases far too often go unsolved,” President Joe Biden said in May in his remarks declaring Missing or Murdered Indigenous Persons Awareness Day on May 5. Among Indigenous men, 81% are more likely to have been victims of violence, compared to 64% of White men.

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