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Experts tell Assembly Public Law 280 and under‑resourcing drive MMIP response gaps
Summary
Legal scholars, tribal leaders and advocates told the Select Committee that Public Law 280’s transfer of jurisdiction without funds has left California tribes under‑resourced, reduced trust in state actors and made investigations harder, and they proposed training, cross‑deputization and retrocession as partial remedies.
Public Law 280 — the federal statute that gave certain states criminal jurisdiction in Indian country — was a recurring focus at the Select Committee hearing, with witnesses saying the law’s practical effects have worsened investigations of missing and murdered Indigenous people.
"Public Law 280 makes the problem of missing and murdered indigenous persons more difficult to address for several reasons," said Carol Goldberg, a UCLA law professor who has researched PL 280 for more than five decades. She told the committee the law "left…
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