In the final days of the legislative session, Colorado state lawmakers passed a bill to create an office of liaison for missing and murdered indigenous relatives.
In the final days of the legislative session, Colorado state lawmakers passed a bill to create an office of liaison for missing and murdered indigenous relatives.
According to a study from the Urban Indian Health Institute, there were 5,712 missing Indigenous women and girls reported to the National Crime Information Center by 2016. At that time, the US Department of Justice's federal missing persons database, NamUs, had recorded 116 cases.