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The state鈥檚 participation in the system, approved by lawmakers earlier this year, was originally billed as helping to find Native Americans who have gone missing. It was named 鈥淓mily鈥檚 Law鈥欌�� to honor Emily Pike, whose remains were found in February, more than 100 miles from a group home she left in Mesa a month earlier.

But Capt. Tom Neve of the state Department of Public Safety, said it is being implemented to allow these alerts 鈥� electronic highway signs, media broadcasts and cell phone notifications 鈥� to be sent any time someone goes missing under suspicious circumstances.

鈥淭hey don鈥檛 have to be Indigenous persons,鈥欌�� Neve said.

鈥淏ut ultimately we do know that the plight of missing, murdered Indigenous persons is real,鈥欌�� Neve said. 鈥淎nd certainly we鈥檝e had people taken off of tribes in 蜜柚直播 that the family didn鈥檛 know.鈥欌��

The alert system is designed to fill the gap between Amber alerts, triggered when a child is believed to have been abducted, and Silver Alerts, to find those 65 and older who go missing, usually because of some cognitive impairment.

So far, there have been no official Turquoise alerts issued. Neve said the guidelines are still being finalized.

鈥淚t doesn鈥檛 say it has to be an abduction,鈥欌�� he said. 鈥淏ut ultimately abductions between those ages would qualify.鈥欌��

But Neve said it can be broader than that.

鈥淐ertainly, if they鈥檙e in the presence of a dangerous person, they went missing under suspicious or unexplained circumstances, and basically local law enforcement has exhausted all the resources they have in trying to locate that person, then they can make a request to DPS to put out a Turquoise Alert for that person,鈥欌�� he said.

And there鈥檚 some tweaking that may need to be done as the system is rolled out and messages are broadcast over the air and cell phones are alerted.

鈥淭hose are things we鈥檙e going to work through with our partners to make sure, Number One, that the alerts are effective in how they go out and are appropriate, and, Two, we鈥檙e not turning the public off by densitizing or not having enough information when we鈥檙e pushing those out,鈥欌�� Neve said.

What that means, he said, is not creating an alert without having important information like the last known location, direction of travel, what they were wearing, and with whom they might be traveling.

鈥淭hose are things that are critical for us to share with the public so they can help us find those people,鈥欌�� Neve said.

Existing kinds of alerts, he said, have proven very successful.

鈥淚n most years, the recovery for Amber is 100% when one is done,鈥欌�� Neve said. 鈥淲hen it comes to Silver Alert, we鈥檙e at 98% of them being located and found.鈥欌��

And he said he would expect Turquoise Alerts to have a similar success rate to those Silver Alerts.

Still, Neve said he couldn鈥檛 provide actual data about how many of these people were found because of the alerts, versus people who were located through other means.