California Sen. Alex Padilla is joining with a colleague from across the aisle in pushing for new legislation to improve data sharing related to people who go missing on federal lands or waters.

The Tracking and Reporting Absent Community-Members Everywhere (TRACE) Act, authored by the Democratic senator and Sen. Thom Tillis, R-NC, passed the Senate last week.

What Is Senator Alex Padilla’s TRACE Act?

The proposed legislation, also known as Senate Bill 1038, seeks to make changes to the U.S. Department of Justice’s National Missing and Unidentified Persons Systems, or NamUs.

Specifically, it would require officials to add a new category to the database “so that the public and law enforcement can denote cases where a person went missing or was identified on federal land or U.S. territor

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