turquoise alert; runaways

SB1830 - turquoise alert; runaways

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Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor: Catherine Miranda, Sally Ann Gonzales, Priya Sundareshan, Oscar De Los Santos
Last action: 2026-02-09
Official status: Senate second read
Effective date: Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

The effective date is not listed in the provided text.

SB1830: Turquoise Alert System for Missing Persons

This bill requires the state to create an alert system for missing people under age 65 who are in danger, have run away, or went missing under suspicious circumstances.

What This Bill Does

Requires a specific department to establish a turquoise alert system as a quick response tool for missing person reports.
Allows law enforcement to request an alert if they believe the person is in danger and has used all local resources.
Sets age limits so alerts can only be issued for people under 65 years old.
Requires that information about the alert must be shared with other groups that send similar notifications in Arizona.
States that an alert must be sent if a child goes missing, even before officials know if they were kidnapped or ran away.

Who It Names or Affects

The state department responsible for public safety and emergency alerts.
Law enforcement agencies including the Arizona Department of Public Safety, municipal police departments, county sheriff's offices, tribal law enforcement agencies, and federal officers operating in Arizona.
Missing persons under the age of 65 who are runaways or missing under suspicious circumstances.

Terms To Know

Turquoise Alert: An emergency broadcast sent to the public when a person is missing and in danger, has run away, or went missing under unexplained circumstances.
Law Enforcement Agency: The Arizona Department of Public Safety, municipal police departments, county sheriff's offices, tribal law enforcement agencies, or federal officers operating within the state.

Limits and Unknowns

The bill does not specify when this new law will officially take effect.
Alerts can only be issued once the department is designated to use the federally authorized emergency alert system for turquoise alerts.
The text requires that information available could assist in recovery, but does not define exactly what type of information qualifies.

Bill History

2026-02-09 Senate
Senate second read
2026-02-05 Senate
Senate Rules: None
2026-02-05 Senate
Senate Public Safety: None
2026-02-05 Senate
Senate first read

Official Summary Text

SB1830 - turquoise alert; runaways

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SB1830 - 572R - I Ver

REFERENCE TITLE:
turquoise alert; runaways

State of Arizona

Senate

Fifty-seventh Legislature

Second Regular Session

2026

SB 1830

Introduced by

Senators
Miranda: Gonzales, Sundareshan;� Representative De Los Santos

AN
ACT

Amending section 41-1728.01, Arizona
Revised Statutes; relating to public safety.

(TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:

Section 1. Section 41-1728.01, Arizona Revised
Statutes, is amended to read:

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41-1728.01.

Turquoise alert system; requirements; definitions

A. The department shall establish the turquoise

alert system as a quick response system designed to
issue and coordinate alerts following the report of a missing person.

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 turquoise

alert if all of the following
conditions are met:

1. The missing person is under sixty-five
years of age.

2. The law enforcement agency investigating the
missing person report:

(a) Has used all available local resources.

(b) Has determined that the person
is
a runaway, if the person is a child, has been kidnapped or
has gone
missing under unexplained or suspicious circumstances.

(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.

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. The department shall issue a
TURQUOISE alert whether or not the department has determined whether the
missing person has been kidnapped or is a r
unaway
,
if the person is a child
.

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.
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