Importance of Feather Alerts for local tribes, missing and murders disproportionate

Indigenous people face disproportionate number of missing and murdered people with high numbers of unsolved cases.

There have been two cases late last month, one involving a Morongo Tribe member.

California launched Feather Alerts in 2023 to create a new system to help the state find Indigenous who have gone missing "under unexplainable or suspicious circumstances."

Feather Alerts are a resource available to law enforcement agencies and give immediate information to the public to help in the recovery of missing indigenous persons.

Stay with News Channel 3 to hear from a local tribe.