No Turquoise Alert for Navajo teen amplifies questions about Arizona's new missing person system

When 14-year-old Neveah Alessandro Campos ran away from her uncle’s home in Glendale on Nov. 1, her mother Ashley Alessandro gave her a day to come back. But when she didn’t, Ashley did what any parent would do: she called the police, filed a missing person report and waited for help.

Nearly a week has passed, she said, with no updates from law enforcement and no statewide alert — leaving Ashley to wonder why her daughter’s disappearance on Nov. 1 isn’t being treated with urgency, especially given Neveah’s high-risk status and hospital-issued safety plan.

Neveah joins more than 300 children reported missing in Arizona since July whose cases haven’t triggered a Turquoise Alert – a statewide alert lawmakers said would close gaps in the system by searching — before it’s too late — for more children like Neveah currently missing. And for more children like Emily Pike, who went missing earlier this year and whose case ended in the worst tragedy any parent can experience.

Law enforcement officials said neither child qualified for Amber or Turquoise alerts, spurring questions about why.





https://azmirror.com/2025/11/07/no-turquoise-alert-for-navajo-teen-amplifies-questions-about-arizonas-new-missing-person-system/