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DONNY YOUNGBLOOD 1350 Norris Road, Bakersfield, California 93308-2231
Sheriff-Coroner Telephone (661) 391-7500
TRAINING BULLETIN
ISSUE: 23-52 DATE: November 9, 2023
SB 673 (Ebony Alert; missing Black youth)
California Governor Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 673 into law, creating the Ebony
Alert notification system, effective January 1st, 2024. This bill would add section 8594.14
to the Government Code, relating to emergency services.
This bill authorizes a law enforcement agency to request the Department of the
California Highway Patrol to activate an “Ebony Alert,” with respect to Black youth,
including young women and girls, who are reported missing under unexplained or
suspicious circumstances, at risk, developmentally disabled, or cognitively impaired, or
who have been abducted.
This bill would authorize a law enforcement agency to request that an Ebony Alert be
activated if that agency determines that an Ebony Alert would be an effective tool in the
investigation of missing Black youth, including a young woman or girl.