A bill that would create a public emergency alert system for missing black youth and women in California was passed unanimously by the state’s Senate Public Safety Committee April 18.
Sen. Steven Bradford (D-Gardena)—who introduced the bill—said it’s creating the “Ebony Alert” system, sponsored by the regional NAACP, would provide more resources and attention.
“Today’s bipartisan vote is a powerful endorsement that we must do. More to locate missing Black children and Black women who are disproportionately represented on the lists of missing persons in California,” Bradford said in a release.
The bill—Senate Bill 673—would establish a new statewide Ebony Alert system to help find missing Black youth, women, and children, who are reported missing under unexplained or suspicious circumstances….