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Committee advances ‘purple alert’ bill to help find missing people with cognitive disabilities
Summary
The committee unanimously recommended first substitute SB 128 to the full Senate. The bill would create a regional-style "purple alert" notification system for missing people with cognitive disabilities; DPS helped shape the substitute and law enforcement and family witnesses supported it.
A Senate committee on Tuesday voted to forward a first substitute to Senate Bill 128, which would create a coordinated notification system—described by the sponsor as a "purple alert"—to help find missing people with certain cognitive disabilities.
The sponsor said the first substitute incorporated language suggested by the Department of Public Safety after stakeholder…
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