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Experts and advocates tell Assembly Public Law 280 and underfunding magnify trafficking and MMIP crisis
Summary
Legal scholars, tribal leaders and anti‑trafficking advocates told the Assembly select committee that Public Law 280's jurisdictional shifts and chronic underfunding contribute to poor investigative outcomes and enable traffickers to target Native communities; witnesses proposed training mandates, cross‑deputization and retrocession as remedies.
At a California State Assembly select committee hearing, legal scholars, tribal leaders and anti‑trafficking advocates said Public Law 280 (PL 280) — the 1953 federal law that shifted certain criminal jurisdiction to states — has magnified the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous people in California by producing chronic underfunding, jurisdictional confusion and lower trust between tribal communities and state or county law enforcement.
Carol Goldberg, a law professor who has researched PL 280 for decades, said PL 280 created “one of the very first unfunded federal mandates,” removing federal jurisdiction without attaching federal funding to implement…
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