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Jahana Hayes: “The system was not designed to help find missing adults.”

Featuring: Jahana Hayes, Democratic | U.S. House, Connecticut, District 5

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Rep. Jahana Hayes on missing persons database | NewsNation Live

Published | Video Starts at 02:11

And there were, every year on the anniversary, it would be in the newspaper, and every time they got any information, they would try to publicize it. But it was literally just the family working on their own because The system was not designed to help find missing adults. I think more importantly or equally as important, there are so many families who don't have the agency or the advocacy to even have their stories heard from my community. (02:11–02:17)

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Asserts that the current system is inadequate for finding missing adults.

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