Missing persons
The AMBER Advocate Issue 1, 2021
Justice Department Fights for the Missing
Since 2007, the U.S. Department of Justice has helped to lead the search for tens of thousands of missing Americans. Created by the Department’s National Institute of Justice (NIJ), the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System, known as NamUs, catalogs photos, fingerprints, dental records and other forensic evidence in an effort to find the missing, identify human remains and close cases that, in many...
Reporting and Investigating Missing Persons: A Background Paper On How To Frame The Issue
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Operation Lady Justice: Comparison of the NamUs and NCIC Databases Fact Sheet
Operation Lady Justice: Administration for Children and Families Hotlines Fact Sheet
Operation Lady Justice: Missing Person Clearinghouses Fact Sheet
Operation Lady Justice Task Force Accomplishments Fact Sheet
Operation Lady Justice Summary Fact Sheet
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Finding the Missing in Indian Country
It seems prescient that Juanita Adams' Lakota name, Omani Wi, means "woman on the longest walk." Because her last journey took 30 years—until she reached her final resting place with her family, in South Dakota's Badlands on the Pine Ridge Reservation.
A member of the Oglala Lakota Tribe, Juanita was 19 years old when she left Pine Ridge in 1978 to join the American Indian...
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