Presidential Task Force on Missing and Murdered American Indians and Alaska Natives Releases Status Report Published: 13 December 2020 13 December 2020
Washington, DC - The Presidential Task Force on Missing and Murdered American Indians and Alaska Natives (AI/AN) today released a status report detailing accomplishments during its first year and outlining its strategy for the next 12 months. The President’s Executive Order (E.O.) 13898, set forth a range of tasks to be completed over the two-year life of the Task Force, with required reports at the end of each year.
Attorney General William P. Barr and Secretary of the Interior David L. Bernhardt transmitted the status report to President Trump, and notably characterized these accomplishments as, “a productive first year of Task Force operations.”
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After a year of research, the Presidential Task Force on Missing and Murdered American Indians and Alaska Natives published its report on the steps it will take over the next year to address the crisis of missing native people.
The task force, part of President Trump s Operation Lady Justice, conducted more than a dozen meetings with Native American tribes and other groups to establish operational protocols, solve cold cases, and expand outreach and awareness, according to a Thursday press release. American Indians and Alaska Natives experience some of the highest rates of violence in the country, a situation that is all the more tragic in light of the generations of trauma already suffered by indigenous people, Attorney General William Barr said in a statement. Despite the COVID-19 pandemic and the unprecedented challenges it posed, the Task Force continued to progress with appropriate urgency to diagnose the symptoms of this intractable problem. They sou