Requires tracking of missing persons last seen on federal land or in U.S. waters.
The TRACE Act would improve how missing persons are tracked if they were last seen on federal land or in U.S. waters. It would add a special data field to a national system to record this information. This change aims to help law enforcement and families by making this specific data easier to find and report.
Today, the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs) does not have a specific data field to show if a missing person was last seen on federal land or in U.S. territorial waters. If this bill becomes law, the system would include this new data field. The Attorney General would also send annual reports to Congress with these specific numbers, which doesn't happen now.
S 1038 · 119th Congress · March 13, 2025 · AI Summary by gemini-2.5-flash · 8/10
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