Implementing AMBER Alert plans in Indian Country plans comes with unique challenges: jurisdictional rights, infrastructure and resources limitations, crime reporting complexities, the need for cultural understanding, and multiagency collaboration.
AATTAP’s AMBER Alert in Indian Country (AIIC) initiative is a bridge meant to overcome such issues—and this subject is at the core of our ongoing series, “Voices from AMBER Alert in Indian Country.”
Watch our three new videos that feature insights from law enforcement leaders from across the nation: https://amberadvocate.org/aiic/aiic-home/. (Also read all the video’s process and goals: https://amberadvocate.org/issues/aa63-amber-alert-in-indian-country-in-focus-2/)
The compelling endeavor, filmed in New Mexico by the Indigenous-led film company Bravebird, focuses on “opening eyes, finding resources and forming lasting partnerships to ensure every person matters,” says Janell Rasmussen, Director of the National Criminal Justice Training Center and Administrator of the AMBER Alert Training & Technical Assistance Program (AATTAP).
– Denise Gee Peacock
