Washington's New Missing Indigenous Alert System Confronts ‘A Learning Curve' In Real Time
The several steps to release a statewide alert once took an entire day of coordinating with families, law enforcement agencies, grassroots organize...
The several steps to release a statewide alert once took an entire day of coordinating with families, law enforcement agencies, grassroots organizers and the news media. Now, when done right, it can be accomplished in less than 10 minutes, Gosch says. Williams' missing person report, obtained by Next City through the King County Sheriff's Department, reveals that Gosch emailed Burien about that streamlined process after being contacted by the Williams family. Gosch asked whether their agency would be interested in issuing an alert, noting that a special agent at the Bureau of Indian Affairs, part of Interior Secretary Deb Haaland's Missing & Murdered Unit, had also offered assistance on this search.