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U.S. OVERNMENT
INFORMATION
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Calendar No. 407
116TH CONGRESS SEAEREPORT
2d Session JSENATE 1 116-206
TO DIRECT THE ATTORNEY GENERAL TO REVIEW, REVISE, AND DEVELOP
LAW ENFORCEMENT AND JUSTICE PROTOCOLS APPROPRIATE TO AD-
DRESS MISSING AND MURDERED INDIANS, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES
JANUARY 15, 2020.-Ordered to be printed
Mr. HOEVEN, from the Committee on Indian Affairs,
submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany S. 227]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Indian Affairs, to which was referred the bill
(S. 227) to direct the Attorney General to review, revise, and de-
velop law enforcement and justice protocols appropriate to address
missing and murdered Indians, and for other purposes, having con-
sidered the same, reports favorably thereon with an amendment in
the nature of a substitute and recommends the bill, as amended,
do pass.
PURPOSE
This bill is intended to improve law enforcement efforts to ad-
dress cases involving missing or murdered Native Americans by (1)
improving tribal access to Federal criminal databases; (2) requiring
data collection and reports to Congress; and, (3) directing the At-
torney General to review, revise, and develop law enforcement and
justice guidelines with greater input from Tribal, state, and local
governments.
BACKGROUND
The bill, S. 227, is named for Savanna LaFontaine-Greywind, a
22-year old member of the Spirit Lake Tribe of North Dakota who
disappeared from her home near Fargo, North Dakota, on August
19, 2017. Eight days later, her body was found wrapped in plastic
in the Red River. While Savanna's tragic death became widespread
news, many other Native Americans go missing or are murdered
each year. Yet the Department of Justice and the Bureau of Indian
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