Ebony Alerts were created to address a large disparity in the risk of Black children to go missing.
They are over 3 times more likely to go missing than the national average.
From https://calmatters.org/politics/2023/12/missing-children-new-law-california-2024/
In 2022, the National Crime Information Center reported more than 140,000 Black children age 17 and younger went missing for at least some period, including more than 77,000 girls. This accounted for about 39% of missing children in the U.S. that year, despite the fact that the Black or African American population makes up only 12.4% of all people living in the U.S.