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Utah Senate creates task force on murdered and missing Indigenous women and girls
Summary
The Utah Senate passed a substitute to House Bill 116 to establish a state task force to study murdered and missing Indigenous women and girls, citing data gaps and racial misclassification; the bill passed under suspension of rules and carries an estimated fiscal note of $9,600.
Salt Lake City — The Utah Senate on day 36 of the 2020 session passed a substitute to House Bill 116 to create a task force charged with studying gaps in data collection and systemic factors behind violence against Indigenous women and girls.
Sponsor Senator Hinkins told colleagues the measure responds to national and local statistics showing a sharply elevated risk of homicide for Indigenous women and girls, and to a lack of reliable data caused by underreporting and racial misclassification. He said the task force will ‘‘identify gaps in local, state and federal law enforcement…
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