Ebony Alert System To Help Find Missing Black Children And Young Women Is Now Law In California

Essence Magazine:

By Melissa Noel ·Updated October 10, 2023

California Governor Gavin Newsom has signed a new law aimed at helping locate missing Black youth and women. Senate Bill 673, known as the “Ebony Alert,” is now the nation’s first statewide alert system explicitly designed to aid in locating missing Black children and young Black women between the ages of 12 and 25.

“Today, California is taking bold and needed action to locate

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