The alert system will use electronic highway signs and encourage the use of TV, radio, social media and other platforms to spread information about the missing person.
Black Coalition Fighting Back Serial Murders members Suzette Shaw, left, holding photos of 10 victims, and Margaret Prescod, at podium, join relatives of victims speaking after the sentencing for Lonnie Franklin Jr., a convicted serial killer known as the"Grim Sleeper," in Los Angeles Superior Court in August 2016.
"Today, California is taking bold and needed action to locate missing Black children and Black women in California," Bradford said in a
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