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Tribal leaders to California Assembly: sustain MMIP funding, fix data and jurisdiction gaps
Summary
Tribal leaders told the Assembly Select Committee on Native American Affairs that recent investments (including MMIP grants and the Feather Alert) have helped, but urged sustained funding, mandatory statewide MMIP tracking, clearer regional response agreements and expanded tribal capacity to prevent cases from ‘falling through the cracks.’
Tribal leaders from across California told a State Assembly select committee on May 5 that progress on missing and murdered Indigenous people (MMIP) initiatives is real but fragile, and that the state must convert one-time grants into ongoing funding, fix jurisdictional confusion under Public Law 280, and improve data collection and tribal access to case systems.
“Over the past 2 years, the state's missing and murdered indigenous people grant program has directed nearly 33,000,000 in critical resources to tribes,” said Bridal Pinto, chairwoman of the Hamul Indian Village Reservation, noting that those investments have supported investigations, data collection and…
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