Initially just a method to improve data collection on
missing and murdered Indigenous women to address that crisis for law enforcement bodies on both reservations and non-reservation US territories, modifications to give tribal law enforcement access to federal databases seems to expose a lack of trust on both sides. In this specific case, the woman being pregnant and her baby having been harvested by the murderer, two people went missing: the woman and her baby. To help this act along, the
Not Invisible Act of 2019 was introduced (since replaced by ) to the House on the initiative of
Deb Haaland and
Norma Torres and to the Senate by
Catherine Cortez Masto on April 2, 2019 to increase intergovernmental coordination to identify and combat violent crime within Indian lands and of Indians. It was finally passed by Congress alongside the
Not Invisible Act in September 2020. Both acts were signed into law in 2020 by President
Donald Trump. ==Legacy==