Washington 14th District State Representative Gina Mosbrucker has been named to the state’s new Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and People Task Force.  Speaker of the House Laurie Jinkins made the appointment.  The 21-member task force within the Washington attorney general’s office will assess causes behind the high rate of disappearances and murders of Indigenous women and people.  The task force will include tribes and tribal organizations, as well as policymakers at local, state, and federal levels.  Mosbrucker introduced House Bill 2951 in 2018, which created a study to increase state resources for reporting and identifying missing Native American women throughout Washington, and in 2019 the Legislature passed and the governor signed Mosbrucker’s House Bill 1713 to establish two tribal liaison positions within the Washington State Patrol to build relationships between governmental organizations and native communities.