General Discussion

The Justice Department has removed a report from its website that lays out recommendations for tackling the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women.

The Not Invisible Act Commission's final report, which was mandated by bipartisan legislation with the same title, was the product of a joint effort between the Justice Department and the Interior Department to combat the disproportionate rates of violent crime, human trafficking and cases of Indigenous people going missing or being murdered.

For all the work of this commission, which the Senate unanimously voted to create in March 2020, there is now a dead link on the Justice Department’s website where its report used to be. Trump signed this bill into law in his first term in office.

The Justice Department did not respond to requests for comment on why this report no longer exists on its website, and if it is related to Trump’s efforts to eliminate any programs or language it considers to be related to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives.

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