Montana Title 44. Law Enforcement § 44-2-411. Missing and murdered indigenous persons advisory council--membership--duties--reporting

(a) an employee of the department of justice who has expertise in the subject of missing persons;

(b) a representative from each federally recognized Indian tribe in Montana;

(c) a homicide investigator;

(d) a representative from the attorney general's office;  and

(e) a representative from the office of public instruction.

(a) identify jurisdictional barriers between federal, state, local, and tribal law enforcement and community agencies;

(b) work to identify causes that contribute to missing and murdered indigenous persons and make recommendations to federally recognized tribes in the state and applicable federal agencies to reduce cases of missing and murdered indigenous persons;

(c) work to identify strategies to improve interagency communication, cooperation, and collaboration to remove jurisdictional barriers and increase reporting and investigation of missing and murdered indigenous persons;  and

(d) administer the looping in native communities network grant program provided for in 44-2-412.

(a) the number of unique individuals reported to the missing and murdered indigenous persons database;

(b) the number of unique individuals recovered as a result of the missing and murdered indigenous persons database;

(c) the number of unique individuals recovered as a result of the looping in native communities network grant program;

(d) the number of unique individuals searched for and recovered as a result of missing persons response teams;

(e) the number of missing persons entries into the missing and murdered indigenous persons database by year;

(f) an analysis by year of the characteristics of missing indigenous persons, including but not limited to age, gender, as provided in 1-1-209, child protective services involvement status, foster case status, duration of time missing, and estimated related cause;

(g) the number of actively missing indigenous persons by year;

(h) a description and the results of any noncompetitive grant awardee activities;

(i) a description of the activities and progress related to improving interagency communication, cooperation, and collaboration and removing interjurisdictional barriers;  and

(j) any other information the advisory council members find relevant to the advisory council's mission.