Tribal AMBER Alert Funding Bill Signed

KSJD | By Austin Cope

Published April 19, 2018 at 12:38 PM MDT

A mural on a Shiprock building memorializes Ashylnn Mike, who was kidnapped, sexually assaulted, and murdered near the town in May 2016.

A bill to support AMBER Alert coverage on the Navajo Nation and on other tribal lands has now become law.

The Farmington Daily-Times reports President Trump signed the legislation on April 13th. It had been introduced by Arizona Senator John McCain after the abduction and murder of eleven-year-old Ashlynn Mike near Shiprock in the spring of 2016.

The new law will allow tribes to apply for and receive federal funding to improve systems that notify the public of missing or abducted children.

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Austin Cope

Austin Cope is a former Morning Edition host for KSJD and now produces work on a freelance basis for the station. He grew up in Cortez and hosted a show on KSJD when he was 10 years old. After graduating from Montezuma-Cortez High School in 2010, he lived in Belgium, Ohio, Spain, northern Wyoming, and Himachal Pradesh, India before returning to the Cortez area. He has a degree in Politics from Oberlin College in Ohio.

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