
Recent Missing and Murdered Indigenous Relatives (MMIR) marches in states including Minnesota, Michigan, North Carolina, and Alaska highlight a nationwide demand for interagency coordination. With Indigenous populations overrepresented in missing persons data, grassroots advocacy continues to spur legislative action and yield vital recovery tools. Key advances include Arizona's Emily's Law, which launched a Turquoise Alert; California legislation establishing a pilot program that grants Tribal police state peace officer authority to remove investigatory barriers; and the Federal Communications Commission's adoption of a new Missing and Endangered Persons, or MEP, alert code. The new code enables rapid public broadcasts for vulnerable individuals who fall outside strict AMBER Alert criteria.
