A report recommends some significant policy changes to help investigate and solve cases involving murdered and missing Indigenous people in Utah.
The draft report, prepared for the Utah State Legislature's Murdered, Missing Indigenous Relatives Task Force , was shared with FOX 13 News. It follows years of meetings and hours of often heart-wrenching testimony from loved ones of those who have vanished or been killed with no resolution.
"Right now? Salt Lake City and the state of Utah is not a safe place for Native American people," said Yolanda Francisco, the executive director of the advocacy group Restoring Ancestral Winds, who also sits on the task force. The report recommends police agencies enter into memorandums of understanding for better coordination among jurisdictions; improved communication with tribes; keeping the families of missing and murdered people appraised of what is happening; cultural sensitivity training; taking all open cases to a cold case review board run by the state; increasing funding to rural law enforcement agencies; and ensuring that missing person alerts are unbiased.
"It's a priority when we have folks who are missing and murdered. We are less than 2% of the population, but the way we are victimized is higher than that," she said.
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