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Sheinbaum to Release Audit of Mexico’s Missing-Persons Registry This Month

The forthcoming report will quantify record quality to show how many cases link to formal investigations.

Overview

  • A federal review found shifting registration rules left the RNPDNO with incomplete entries, missing key fields, and cases logged without complaints to prosecutors.
  • The publication will break down how many records are complete, partial, or effectively empty, and will report how many people were later located from properly integrated files.
  • It will specify how many disappearances have a carpeta de investigación, how many lack one, and how many were registered without any formal procedure.
  • Sheinbaum said Segob and the CNB have equipped and funded search collectives and madres buscadoras to improve on-the-ground searches.
  • She criticized the RNPDNO platform as having serious flaws, while a separate study reported a 213% increase in disappearances from 2015 to 2025.