Despite a bidding process designed for greater fairness, the contract is once again the subject of debate — and a formal protest by one of the losing participants.
Nearly two years after state lawmakers set aside $1 million for the New Mexico Attorney General’s office to create an online portal to track cases of missing Indigenous people, and potentially give tribes grants to help in that search, the office hasn’t spent the money.
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A previous state law made it a petty misdemeanor to release information tied to abuse or neglect cases in the troubled department, but a recent appeals court opinion in Colorado