California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill Sunday establishing an Ebony Alert that will function like an Amber Alert for missing Black youths in the state.
California is rolling out a companion to the Amber Alert, the system used nationwide in missing children’s cases, to specifically highlight cases of young Black people who go missing in the state.is meant to address a long-standing racial inequity in the attention given to cases of missing Black children, teens and young adults by law enforcement and the media, state Sen. Steven Bradford told The Washington Post on Tuesday.Gov.
Bradford said he intended for the alert to be issued across phones, online and on highway signage, just like the state’s other emergency messages.to the FBI’s National Crime Information Center. Around 140,000 Black children 17 or younger were reported missing in 2022 compared with roughly 190,000 White children reported missing. In 2020, Black juveniles made up around 15 percent of the U.S.
Dedicating an alert system for missing Black people could encourage law enforcement to devote more attention to their cases, said Derrica Wilson, the co-founder of the nonprofit Black and Missing Foundation. Wilson, a former Virginia police officer, said the move should still be accompanied by training so that officers, who must decide to request the alert, don’t disregard the cases in the first place.
It is also not California’s first alert tailored to a missing person’s race or ethnicity. In 2022, the stateAsked whether he was concerned that adding the Ebony Alert would lead to too many messages being issued over the state’s emergency systems, Bradford said any increase in the alarms raised about missing Black children would be a sign of progress.He added that he hoped the alert could be replicated in other states.
“So goes California, so goes the nation,” Bradford said. “Hopefully, this can be a shining example of what needs to be done.”
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California creates race-based missing persons alert system: 'Ebony alert'Breccan F. Thies is an investigative reporter for the Washington Examiner. He previously covered education and culture issues at Breitbart News. A Virginia native, Thies graduated from the University of Virginia in 2019, where he earned a degree in foreign affairs and minored in history. You can follow him on X: BreccanFThies.
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