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Bill Text - AB-1314 Gender identity: parental notification.
Section 8594.13 is added to the Government Code, to read:
8594.13.
(a) For purposes of this section, “Feather Alert” means a notification system, activated pursuant to subdivision (b), designed to issue and coordinate alerts with respect to endangered indigenous people, specifically indigenous women or indigenous people, who are reported missing under unexplained or suspicious circumstances.(b) (1) If a person is reported missing to a law enforcement agency and that agency determines that the requirements of subdivision (c) are met, the law enforcement agency may request the Department of the California Highway Patrol to activate a Feather Alert. If the Department of the California Highway Patrol concurs that the requirements of subdivision (c) have been met, it shall activate a Feather Alert within the appropriate geographical area requested by the investigating law enforcement agency.
To activate the Feather Alert, the following criteria that must be met:
According to the Sovereign Bodies Institute 2020 report only nine percent of murders of indigenous women in California have ever been solved.
California has the highest population of Native American residents in the country, totaling around 750,00 and belonging to some 200 tribes. Many live in urban centers like San Francisco or Los Angeles. More rural regions in the north of the state have seen a disproportionately larger number of disappearances of Native women and girls.
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English - Taaqtam Müüy’müy’k (sovereign-bodies.org)