AB 2944

Bill Subjects

Abstract

Existing law requires the Attorney General to establish and maintain the Violent Crime Information Center to assist in the identification and the apprehension of persons responsible for specific violent crimes and for the disappearance and exploitation of persons, particularly children and dependent adults. Existing law requires the Attorney General to establish within the center and to maintain an online automated computer system designed to effect an immediate law enforcement response to reports of missing persons, and requires the center to make information authorized for dissemination that is contained in law enforcement reports regarding missing or unidentified persons accessible to the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System. Existing law establishes the Rural Indian Crime Prevention Program, a program of financial and technical assistance for local law enforcement, within the Office of Emergency Services, to target the relationship between law enforcement and Indigenous communities to encourage and strengthen cooperative efforts and to implement crime suppression and prevention programs. This bill would authorize the Governor to appoint a Red Ribbon Panel to address the murdered or missing indigenous persons (MMIP) crisis, consisting of specified members. The bill would require the panel to produce and submit, by January 1, 2026, a study with recommendations to address the MMIP crisis to tribes, California's federal elected officials, the Legislature, counties, cities, and federal, tribal, state, county, and local law enforcement agencies. The bill would make related findings and declarations.