🚨 HISTORY IS NOT MADE BY AGREEMENT — IT IS MADE BY ACTION 🚨
The Ebony Alert public hearing is TODAY at 1:30 PM PST.
Action Needed immediately: We are asking everyone in the community who supports this petition to do the following:
- Sign in PRO in support of SB 6070 for the legislative record
- Submit a short-written statement explaining why you support the Ebony Alert initiative
This is the moment where support must move beyond words, beyond posts, beyond good intentions.
Because awareness alone does not protect missing Black people.
Policy does.
Right now, Washington State has the opportunity to become the FIRST state in the nation with a dedicated alert system for missing Black people. This is a real chance to correct racial disparities in how missing cases are treated, prioritized, and investigated.
But opportunities like this do not stay open forever.
Lawmakers are paying attention to who shows up in the official legislative record — not just who shares posts or signs petitions. They look for documented community urgency when deciding whether a bill moves forward or gets delayed.
And delay in policies that protect missing people can have real, life-altering consequences.
🖤 THIS IS THE MOMENT TO TURN SUPPORT INTO PROTECTION
If you care about missing Black women, children, families, and community safety — this is the step that directly helps move this bill forward.
⏰ BEFORE 1:30 PM PST TODAY:
✔️ Sign in PRO for 6070 on the legislative record
✔️ Submit a short written testimony
✔️ Share this call to action with your community
Your testimony does NOT need to be long. One sentence is enough.
Example:
“I support SB 6070 because Black lives matter and our missing loved ones deserve visibility, urgency, and equitable protection.”
🖤 WHY THIS MATTERS
Across the country, Black people — especially women and girls — are disproportionately represented among missing persons and are far less likely to receive media coverage, law enforcement urgency, or public alerts.
Ebony Alert is about changing that reality.
It is about ensuring our loved ones are treated as urgent.
It is about creating systems that respond when our community needs help.
It is about refusing to accept invisibility as normal.
🖤 FINAL CALL
Moments like this define whether change happens — or whether it gets postponed again.
Supporting this bill is not about politics.
It is about protection.
It is about visibility.
It is about whether our community receives the same urgency when someone goes missing.
The hearing is today.
The window to act is closing.
Show up in the record.
Help make history.
Help save lives.