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Calendar No. 138
119TH CONGRESS REPORT
1st Session SENATE 119-53
BRIDGING AGENCY DATA GAPS AND ENSURING SAFETY
(BADGES) FOR NATIVE COMMUNITIES ACT
JULY 31, 2025.-Ordered to be printed
Ms. MURKOWSKI, from the Committee on Indian Affairs,
submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany S. 390]
The Committee on Indian Affairs, to which was referred the bill
(S. 390), to require Federal law enforcement agencies to report on
cases of missing or murdered Indians, and for other purposes, hav-
ing considered the same, reports favorably thereon without amend-
ment, and recommends that the bill do pass.
PURPOSE
The purpose of S. 390 is to improve public safety and justice in
Indian country by improving data collection and sharing between
Tribal, federal, state and local law enforcement agencies, address-
ing barriers to investigating missing and murdered Indigenous per-
sons, and addressing federal inefficiencies in background checks to
expedite and streamline the hiring process of Bureau of Indian Af-
fairs (BIA) and Tribal law enforcement agencies to help with re-
cruitment and retention in Indian Country.
BACKGROUND AND NEED
At least 240 Tribes directly operate their own police departments
to provide public safety services to their communities,1 while others
rely on federally-operated BIA police departments or state and
local law enforcement agencies (LEAs) pursuant to P.L. 83-280.2
'Tribal Law Enforcement, BUREAU OF JUSTICE STATISTICS, https://bjs.ojp.gov/topics/tribal-
crime-and-justice/tribal-law-enforcement (last visited Oct. 18, 2024).
2C0mmonly referred to as Public Law 280, this law transferred federal criminal and civil
jurisdiction over federal Indian lands to the state governments of California, Minnesota, Ne-
braska, Oregon, Wisconsin, and Alaska (mandatory states), with certain exemptions for three
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