ELK GROVE, Calif. — The California Highway Patrol has issued an Ebony Alert for a 14-year-old girl in Sacramento County.
According to CHP, Kamara Green was last seen around 8 a.m. May 14 on Auberry Drive and Power Inn Road in Elk Grove.
She was last seen wearing a black turtleneck dress, black pants and flip-flops. She is around 5 feet 5 inches tall and weighs around 125 pounds. She has brown eyes and brown hair.
Kamara's mother, Kayla, is pleading for help in finding and bringing her daughter home.
"Going everyday not knowing my daughter is, watching the news, dead bodies turning up — hoping it's not my daughter that they're finding," Kayla said.
The Monterey Trails ninth grader was supposed to go to school on May 14, but she never showed up and never came home.
Eleven weeks after Kamara went missing, the California Highway Patrol issued an 'Ebony Alert.' The alert is a new resource for agencies as they investigate the disappearance of a Black child or woman between the ages 12 and 25.
Kayla said it's possible her daughter is with a man from Texas who was exchanging messages with Kamara.
She added that she's also frustrated it took weeks to issue the Ebony Alert.
"I think that it'd be more attention given to my daughter. They would be more on top of the evidence or the supporting things that I could give them to help the case out," Kayla said.
A spokesperson for the Sacramento County Sheriff's Office, the investigating agency, said the alert wasn't issued because it didn't meet the criteria for the alert. He said there are no other risk factors in the case and that the alert was issued now due to the length of time she's been missing.
Call 911 if you see Green.
WHAT IS AN EBONY ALERT?
The California Statewide Ebony Alert Program was introduced through Senate Bill 673 and became law in January 2024.
It’s a resource for agencies investigating the suspicious or unexplained disappearance of a Black woman or Black person.
Certain criteria must be me, including:
- The missing person is between 12 to 25 years of age.
- The missing person suffers from a mental or physical disability.
- The person is missing under circumstances that indicate any of the following: (A) The missing person’s physical safety may be endangered or (B) The missing person may be subject to trafficking.
- The law enforcement agency determines that the person has gone missing under unexplained or suspicious circumstances.
- The law enforcement agency believes that the person is in danger because of age, health, mental or physical disability, or environment or weather conditions, that the person is in the company of a potentially dangerous person, or that there are other factors indicating that the person may be in peril.
- The investigating law enforcement agency has utilized available local resources.
- There is information available that, if disseminated to the public, could assist in the safe recovery of the missing person.
