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'We finally have hope': Arizona lawmakers pass bill creating turquoise alerts for missing Indigenous people (www.abc15.com)

submitted 2 days ago by miguel@fedia.io to c/hopeposting@lemmy.world

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Arizona lawmakers have unanimously passed "Emily's Law," a bill named for 14-year-old Emily Pike that would create a turquoise alert system for missing Indigenous people.

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[–] rekabis@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Day one, and Arizonans discover that someone has gone and backlisted all prior disappearances from the last 20 years, and scheduled them for daytime broadcast over the following year.

NGL that would absolutely make my day, as people’s faces are crammed bodily into the sheer enormity of the problem.

[–] BingBong@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And unfortunately it would be met by the majority of the population disabling the alert on their phone.

[–] rekabis@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

Don’t know what it’s like in America, but in Canada those alerts can be neither silenced nor turned off. Don’t want them? Turn the phone entirely off, and at least it won’t fire off at that time. It’ll still crop up as soon as the phone turns back on, because it’s a push notification that the system holds in a queue until the phone is back online to pick it up, just like SMS or voice mail.