Establishing the Task Force on Missing and Murdered American Indians and Alaska Natives

2019-12-02Executive Order 13898
Signed by: Donald Trump
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Headline: Creates Task Force on Missing and Murdered American Indians and Alaska Natives

What it does: Agencies must form and staff a task force to develop protocols, review cold cases, and coordinate data sharing and outreach for missing and murdered American Indians and Alaska Natives.

Real World Impact:
  • Creates coordinated federal reviews of cold cases involving Native victims.
  • Requires agencies to improve data sharing and use criminal databases like NamUs.
  • Mandates reports to the President at one and two years and ends after two years.
Topics: missing persons, indigenous communities, criminal justice, data sharing, victim outreach

Summary

This order creates a federal Task Force to address missing and murdered American Indians and Alaska Natives. It requires high-level officials to coordinate with tribal governments and directs the Department of Justice to fund and staff the Task Force.

The Task Force will consult tribes, develop model investigation protocols, improve data sharing and use of databases like NamUs and CODIS, review cold cases, run outreach campaigns, and report to the President after one and two years; it ends two years after the order unless extended.

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