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California is taking an important step to help bring missing Black women and children home safely. This week, the state’s Governor, Gavin Newsom, signed Senate Bill 673, a new law allowing police to request the activation of notifications, known as “Ebony alerts,” when Black women and children ages 12-25 are reported missing. Like AMBER alerts, Ebony alerts notify the public of a missing person through electronic highway signs. The information can also be disseminated throug...

I’v never heard of anyone getting an Amber Alert and wondering what race the missing child was. Yet for some reason, California saw a problem that didn’t exist and addressed it. On Sunday, Gov....

For the first time in the nation’s history, a statewide system will alert motorists of missing Black youths and women, beginning Jan. 1. The “Ebony Alert” law enables the California Highway Patrol to authorize alerts made through the changeable message signs along freeways.

 

California's bold Ebony Alert system, a transformative response to the crisis of missing Black kids and a stride towards addressing racial disparities in missing youth cases.

California recently passed a law to create the Ebony Alert, the first statewide alert system focused on finding missing Black children and young people ages 12 to 25.

CA Governor, Gavin Newsom has signed a new bill into law. The Ebony Alert will specifically focus on missing Black children and women.

Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) signed legislation making California the first state in the country to create a separate alert system for missing women and children based on race.

Gov. Newsom signed the statewide alert system into law on October 9 which will aid in locating Black missing children and young women.

A missing Edward Waters University student “suffers from seizures and she is without her medication,” according to a missing person flyer from a nonprofit.