Montana Missing Indigenous Persons Task Force provides update
The Montana Missing Indigenous Persons Task Force held their monthly meeting, providing an update on the crisis facing indigenous people.
and last updated 2021-02-18 12:26:02-05
KALISPELL â The Montana Missing Indigenous Persons Task Force held their monthly meeting, providing an update on the crisis facing indigenous people.
Brian Frost â the Missing Persons Specialist for the Montana Department of Justice provided an update on missing indigenous people, saying that out of the 167 missing people across the state, 53 are indigenous.
Frost also mentioned that out of the 21 agencies that have reported a missing indigenous person, the Crow Agency had reported the most cases with 10 cases.
Task Force: Crow Agency reported most missing Indigenous person cases in Montana
By: Jaurdyn Johnson - MTN News
Posted at 7:36 AM, Feb 18, 2021
and last updated 2021-02-18 15:00:09-05
The Montana Missing Indigenous Persons Task Force held their monthly meeting Wednesday and provided an update on the crisis facing indigenous people.
Brian Frost, the Missing Persons Specialist for the Montana Department of Justice, provided an update on missing indigenous people, saying that out of the 167 missing people across the state, 53 are indigenous.
Frost also mentioned that out of the 21 agencies that have reported a missing indigenous person, the Crow Agency had reported the most with 10 cases.
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Three bills aimed at addressing the disproportionate number of Native Americans who go missing in Montana have been endorsed by the state House of Representatives. The legislation builds on work that began last session.
Rep. Sharon Stewart Peregoy, a Democrat from Crow Agency, is carrying the legislation to extend the Montana Missing Indigenous Persons Task Force, to create a commission to study trends around the crisis and to fund special training for law enforcement.
“At the end of the day, this is about lives, she said.
All three bills were drafted in the interim bipartisan State-Tribal Relations Committee. With Thursday’s unanimous passage of House Bill 98 to extend the task force on a preliminary vote, all three are poised to move onto the Senate.