The system has exposed limitations in how police departments can work together across state lines to track missing individuals
A pioneering alert system for missing Indigenous people has brought new attention to a group that has historically felt ignored by authorities, part of a broad reckoning that is remaking Washington state’s relationship with tribal communities.
“We teeter totter. We fall down. And we pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off,” she said in an interview. In Washington, the alerts form part of a broader attempt by lawmakers and advocates to pry open the eyes of authorities to long-standing injustices. The Washington State Patrol now maintains a list of missing Indigenous people, which it releases every two weeks.
But the state’s ambitious response to the issue has also cast a critical new light on Canada, where the most comprehensive national database of missing Indigenous people is Aboriginal Alert, a website run by Dan Martel, a Métis consultant in Edmonton. His shoestring budget is supported primarily by his own business, with some additional funding from the province of Alberta. His most effective alerts are boosted posts on Facebook, which he buys for $5 at a time.
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