Story on passage of HB1735 3/4/2022 to clarify HB1310

 

Matt Orth Search Report (redacted)

 

Facebook Post when search was called off after 1 day. Weather was rainy and snow was on the way, but weather was not bad enough to prevent searching. Locals responded and searched on foot. 10/28/2022

 

Missing Person Matt Orth 10/23/2022

 

Notes from Skagit County Sheriff's Office town council meeting explaining SCSO interpretation of and policy re HB1054 and HB1310 9/27/2021

 

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Experienced wilderness ranger's response to inquiry about NPS standard policy on searching for suicidal subjects 1/30/2021

"I think the industry standard is (or should be) that missing people are treated the same regardless of whether it is believed to be intentional or unintentional. Investigations should lead the search. If there aren’t any clues or leads to suggest where a person has gone, it can be fruitless to search until there are more leads. I work with some rangers here that, I feel, don’t really feel the same urgency about searching for suicidal subjects (believing that if they wanted to die, so be it), and that value judgment may be prevalent other places as well.

As far as I’m concerned, suicidal subjects should be searched for as vigorously as any other missing person. The only things that should influence search effort are a lack of investigatory leads, or a huge saturation of search effort in that area where the person was believed to be (technically speaking, when the 'probability of detection' is high and the person still hasn’t been located – ie. you have to reasonably be able to stop looking in the same place at some point…)."