California Rolls Out New ‘Ebony Alert’ to Prioritize Search for Missing Black Children
California Governor Gavin Newsom on Sunday signed a bill into law that will prioritize the search for missing black children.
The “Ebony Alert” will go into effect on January 1.
“Data shows that Black and brown, our indigenous brothers and sisters, when they go missing there’s very rarely the type of media attention, let alone AMBER alerts and police resources that we see with our white counterparts,” Democrat state Senator Steven Bradford, creator of the legislation, told NBC News earlier this year.
NBC News reported:
California’s newly enacted “Ebony Alert” law is the first of its kind in the nation to prioritize the search for Black youth gone missing.
