MMIP task‑force updates: license‑plate readers, task‑force coordination and shared intake proposal

Jan 28, 2026

Tribal and state MMIP liaisons and federal partners described efforts to improve reporting, partner coordination and investigations for missing and murdered indigenous relatives. Tribal speakers outlined deployment safeguards around license-plate‑reader systems and urged a shared intake portal for faster, coordinated case handling.

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Lantz Fourstar and tribal MMIP liaisons briefed the Select Committee on Tribal Relations about multi‑agency efforts to improve responses to missing and murdered Indigenous relatives (MMIR). Fourstar described how license‑plate‑recognition (LPR) cameras have been used in other tribal jurisdictions with privacy safeguards (records retention policies, supervisory audit trails and 90‑day deletion windows) and recounted a case in which timely access to LPR data helped locate and rescue a tribal member.

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