A 7 p.m. curfew for juveniles in the Gila River Indian Community will continue, despite being scheduled to end on Monday. Gov. Stephen Roe Lewis issued the emergency declaration, citing public safety reasons in late February.
It has now been extended a second time. His latest executive order, signed on March 28, lengthened that curfew across the nearly 600-square-mile reservation just south of Phoenix.
U.S. Census data shows a fifth – or nearly 3,000 residents – among the reservation’s total population are younger than 14 years old…