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Senate approves 'Ebony Alert'; advocates urge House to act
Washington State Senate (press conference) · February 13, 2026
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Advocates and legislators celebrated a unanimous Senate passage of an "Ebony Alert" and urged the House to pass the measure, saying Black communities in Washington receive fewer resources and media attention when people go missing.
Advocates and lawmakers at a press conference in Olympia urged the Washington House to pass an "Ebony Alert" after senators sent the measure out of the Senate unanimously.
"The Ebony alert started as just a grassroot movement," Latanya Horace Duquois, executive director of the SALON task force, said, describing community-originated…
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