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-REFERENCE TITLE: turquoise alerts; statewide; training
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+COMMITTEE
 
-State of Arizona
+ARIZONA STATE SENATE
 
-Senate
+Fifty-Seventh
+Legislature, Second Regular Session
 
-Fifty-seventh Legislature
+FACT SHEET FOR S.B. 1740
 
-Second Regular Session
+turquoise alerts; statewide;
+training
 
-2026
+Purpose
 
-SB 1740
+����������� Requires each law
+enforcement agency to develop and conduct employee training on the Turquoise
+Alert System and the issuance of a turquoise alert, as modified.
 
-Introduced by
+Background
 
-Senators
-  Hatathlie: Alston, Gonzales, Kuby, Shope, Sundareshan
+����������� The Turquoise Alert System is a quick response system
+designed to issue and coordinate alerts following the report of a missing person
+who is a member of a federally recognized Indian tribe. On the request of
+an authorized person at a law enforcement agency that is investigating a report
+of a missing person, the Department of Public Safety must request an activation
+of the federally authorized Emergency Alert System and issue a turquoise alert
+if all of the following conditions are met: 1) the missing person is under 65
+years old; 2) the investigating agency has used all available local resources, determined
+that the person has gone missing under unexplained or suspicious circumstances
+and believes that the person is in danger or in the company of a potentially
+dangerous person or that there are other factors indicating that the person may
+be in peril; and 3) there is information available that, if disseminated to the
+public, could assist in the safe recovery of the missing person (A.R.S. � 41-1728.01).
 
-AN
-ACT
+����������� There is no
+anticipated fiscal impact to the state General Fund associated with this
+legislation.
 
-Amending section 41-1728.01, Arizona
-Revised Statutes; relating to turquoise alerts.
+Provisions
 
-(TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)
+1.
+Instructs each law enforcement agency to:
 
-Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:
+a)    develop,
+implement and regularly update training criteria regarding the Turquoise Alert
+System; and
 
-Section 1. Section 41-1728.01, Arizona Revised
-Statutes, is amended to read:
+b)    conduct
+Turquoise Alert System training for all employees of the agency, at the time of
+hire and biannually, who have direct involvement in missing person cases,
+including the supervisors of these employees and communication dispatchers.
 
-START_STATUTE41-1728.01. Turquoise alert system; requirements; definitions
+2.
+Requires the training to be comprehensive and create a solid foundation
+of knowledge regarding the legal criteria and processes involved in issuing a
+timely turquoise alert.
 
-A. The department shall establish the turquoise alert system as a quick response system designed to
-issue and coordinate statewide alerts following the
-report of a missing person.
+3.
+Stipulates that the training must include a review of the law
+enforcement agency's policies and any state policies regarding locating a
+missing, abducted or runaway child, with a specific focus on turquoise alert
+procedures.
 
-B. On the request of an authorized person at a law
-enforcement agency that is investigating a report of a missing person, the
-department shall request an activation of the emergency alert system and issue
-a statewide turquoise alert
-if all of the following conditions are met:
+4.
+Specifies that the Turquoise Alert System issues statewide and
+coordinates statewide turquoise alerts.
 
-1. The missing person is under sixty-five
-years of age.
+5.
+Stipulates that the investigating law enforcement agency must use all
+available resources which includes complying with the prescribed mandatory
+reporting requirements and information collection procedures if the person is a
+missing, kidnapped or runaway child.
 
-2. The law enforcement agency investigating the
-missing person report:
+6.
+Makes technical and conforming changes.
 
-(a) Has used all available local resources, including complying with section 8-901 if the person is a missing,
-kidnapped or runaway child.
+7.
+Becomes effective on the general effective date.
 
-(b) Has determined that the person has gone missing
-under unexplained or suspicious circumstances.
+Prepared by Senate Research
 
-(c) Believes that the missing person is in danger or
-that the missing person is in the company of a potentially dangerous person or
-that there are other factors indicating that the missing person may be in
-peril.
+February 16, 2026
 
-3. There is information available that, if
-disseminated to the public, could assist in the safe recovery of the missing
-person.
-
-4. The department has been designated to use the
-federally authorized emergency alert system for the issuance of turquoise alerts.
-
-C. If the department issues a turquoise alert pursuant to this section, the department shall
-provide the turquoise alert information to any other entity that provides
-similar notifications in this state.
-
-D. Each law enforcement agency shall
-do all of the following:
-
-1. Develop, implement and regularly
-update training criteria regarding the turquoise alert system pursuant to this
-section.
-
-2. Conduct TURQUOISE ALERT SYSTEM
-training for all employees of the law enforcement agency, at the time of hire
-and biannually, who have direct involvement in missing person cases, including
-the supervisors of these employees and communication dispatchers.� The training
-must include a review of the law enforcement agency's policies and any state
-policies regarding locating a missing, abducted or runaway child, with a
-specific focus on Turquoise alert procedures.� The training shall be comprehensive
-and shall create a solid foundation of knowledge regarding the legal criteria
-and processes involved in issuing a timely turquoise alert.
-
-D. E. For the purposes of this section:
-
-1. "Law
-enforcement agency" means the Arizona department of
-public safety, a municipal police department, a county sheriff's office, a
-tribal law enforcement agency and or
-a federal law enforcement agency that operates within this state.
-
-2. "Person" includes a member of a
-federally recognized Indian Tribe. END_STATUTE
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