Arizona has four types of emergency alerts that can be activated when other law enforcement methods have been exhausted.

On July 23, Arizona activated its recently-created Turquoise Alert for the first time. While the alert was subsequently canceled, the activation also led to some questions over what kinds of missing person cases qualify for Turquoise Alerts.

The state's first activation of the recently-created Turquoise Alert took place on July 23, but there are still some questions over what makes the Turquoise Alert, as it exists currently, different from AMBER Alerts.