SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) -- The California Highway Patrol issued two Ebony Alerts for missing Bay Area teenagers within the past week. One was issued for a 17-year-old girl, Morgan Crenshaw, who vanished in Antioch. The second was issued for Amarie Woods, a 15-year-old girl who went missing in Oakland on Sept. 28.

When Ebony Alerts are posted by law enforcement on social media, comments asking about the alert system usually follow.

California is the first state in the country that created Ebony Alerts, a system dedicated to finding missing Black juveniles and young adults between ages 12 to 25.

Criteria for issuing an alert includes several factors: the person went missing under unexplained or suspicious circumstances, the person’s physical safety may be endangered, or person may be a victi

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