A Missing Indigenous People Alert Is Coming to a Highway, or Phone, Near You

Highway messages are legendary in Washington, where everything from an Uncle Sam sign to a Seattle Is Dying joke gone awry to the “Science is God” house have become part of I-5 lore. But last week guaranteed our roadside canon will be historic for much more serious reasons.

At Tulalip Resort Casino on Thursday, governor Jay Inslee signed into law the nation’s first statewide missing Indigenous people alert system. That’s right. Somehow—like that new federal anti-lynching act—this is not a thing that already existed.

House Bill 1725 requires the Washington State Patrol to set up a hotline for reporting cases of endangered Native Americans, with pictures

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