Navajo Nation lawmakers are proposing tribal legislation to fund an emergency 911 system and expand efforts for a rural addressing system on the vast reservation. About $850,000 of the multi-million appropriation in the bill would go toward developing an Amber Alert system - a move that comes in response to a kidnapping this year that raised concerns over the fact that the United States' largest American Indian reservation does not have its own system to issue child abduction alerts. Authorities say 11-year-old Ashlynne Mike was lured into a man's van near her school bus stop on May 2, and found dead the next day in the desert south of Shiprock, New Mexico. An Amber Alert wasn't issued until the morning after her disappearance. (Copyright 2016 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.)

Navajo Nation lawmakers are proposing tribal legislation to fund an emergency 911 system and expand efforts for a rural addressing system on the vast reservation.



About $850,000 of the multi-million appropriation in the bill would go toward developing an Amber Alert system - a move that comes in response to a kidnapping this year that raised concerns over the fact that the United States' largest American Indian reservation does not have its own system to issue child abduction alerts.



Authorities say 11-year-old Ashlynne Mike was lured into a man's van near her school bus stop on May 2, and found dead the next day in the desert south of Shiprock, New Mexico.



An Amber Alert wasn't issued until the morning after her disappearance.


(Copyright 2016 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.)