At 5:23 A.M. on Sunday, November 2nd, Valley residents were woken by the sounds of their phones alerting to a missing indigenous teen, marking the third time officials have used the Turquoise Alert. The missing teen, Yolyn Hermios, was found safe Tuesday night by Mesa Police, but many residents still have questions about the program that disrupted their Sunday morning this past weekend.

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The Turquoise Alert, also known as “Emily’s Law,” was codified in May by Governor Katie Hobbs with bipartisan agreement. Named in honor of Emily Pike, a San Carlos Apache Tribe teen who was murdered after disappearing from Sacred Journey Inc. group home in Mesa in January 2025, the program’s goal is to reduce the number of cases like Pike’s.

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