Gov Newsom signs new ‘Ebony Alert’ law to specifically warn when Black youth, women go missing
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Thanks to the new law, California will reportedly be the first state to create an alert notification system to specifically address missing Black children and women.
A press release on the senator’s website proclaimed that "California will become the first state to create an alert notification system to address the crisis of missing Black children and young Black women between the ages of 12 and 25." Alexander Hall is an associate editor for Fox News Digital. Story tips can be sent to Alexander.hall@fox.com.
"Today, California is taking bold and needed action to locate missing Black children and Black women in California. I want to thank the Governor for signing the Ebony Alert into law," Bradford himself said in the press release. "Our Black children and young women are disproportionately represented on the lists of missing persons. This is heartbreaking and painful for so many families and a public crisis for our entire state. The Ebony Alert can change this."
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