Link to Petition to “Make the Department of the Interior accountable for persons missing in our National Parks & Forests”

Heidi Streetman petition to “Make the Department of the Interior accountable for persons missing in our National Parks & Forests”

A petition by Heidi Steetman to “Make the Department of the Interior accountable for persons missing in our National Parks & Forests” was started in 2022 and has reached 12,635 supporters out of a goal of 13,000 as of April 2024 (Link to Petition).

Streetman is an educator with stints at the Community College of Denver and Regis University and is currently at the Colorado School of Mines . She has been pushing for improvements in the procedures surrounding disappearances on public land for years

The petition demands that a national, publicly accessible registry/database be created in which all missing persons are accounted for in U.S. national parks and forests and on BLM lands. The purpose of this would be to make the government accountable for keeping track and reporting of the missing, to inform the public of the facts surrounding missing persons cases on public lands, and to keep account of all missing individuals and the circumstances under which they went missing on public lands.