Missoula Police Detective Guy Baker has a special place in his heart for Jermaine Charlo and her family, as Wednesday, June 16 marks the third anniversary of her disappearance.
On Thursday morning, Governor Greg Gianforte held a signing ceremony for a suite of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons bills at his office in the state capitol.
In response to the many missing and murdered indigenous persons cases over the years, on Thursday, the U.S. Attorney’s Office, the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes and the FBI announced the completion of the nation’s First Tribal Community Response Plan
A new effort to help locate and identify missing and murdered indigenous persons is now being launched in Montana. A live virtual concert is also set for Saturday, November 7th to mark the launch of the Missing Indigenous Persons reporting portal.
When I rounded the corner from third street onto 27th Street the magnitude of the movement came into full view: easily 1,000 people were gathered on the sidewalk and in the park adjacent to the Yellowstone County Courthouse.