Arizona Committee on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Peoples Releases List of Recommendations

An Arizona legislative committee has released a new list of recommendations to combat the Missing and Murdered Indigenous People’s crisis across Indian Country. 

The recommendations, compiled by the Arizona House Ad Hoc Committee on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Peoples, are the result of five hearings the committee hosted over three months for Arizona’s Indigenous communities to share how the MMIP crisis has impacted them. The final hearing took place on Dec. 15.

The committee includes Arizona lawmakers and tribal representatives and was launched in 2019 to focus on missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. The committee re-launched in Oct. 2022 with an expanded mission to investigate violence against all Indigenous people, including men, boys, Two-Spirit and LGBTQ.

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