Existing law establishes a Rural Indian Crime Prevention Program to provide grants to local law enforcement agencies to provide training to officers and to provide specified services to Native American persons and communities.
Existing law establishes the Department of Justice, and makes the department responsible, in part, for overseeing statewide criminal justice programs.
Existing law requires the Department of Justice to provide technical assistance to local law enforcement agencies and tribal governments relating to tribal issues, including providing guidance for law
enforcement education and training on policing and criminal investigations on Indian lands, providing guidance on improving crime reporting, crime statistics, criminal procedures, and investigative tools, and facilitating and supporting improved communication between local law enforcement agencies and tribal governments.
This bill would express the intent of
the Legislature to enact legislation to create establish a Bureau of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Women, Girls, and Persons within the Department of Justice. The bill would impose specified responsibilities on the bureau, including facilitating collaboration between tribal governments and federal, state, and out-of-state law enforcement regarding cases involving missing and murdered indigenous women, girls, and persons in California. The bill, until January 1, 2029, would require the bureau to submit an annual report to both houses of the Legislature containing data on the number of and facts about cases involving
missing and murdered indigenous women, girls, and persons in California.