Bill to expand mandatory reporting of child abuse will help protect more kids - Alabama

Chris Engel 3/11/134:04 PM

"State Rep. Dickie Drake, R-Leeds, is sponsoring a bill that will add physical therapists, all public and private K-12 employees, and employees of public and private institutions of postsecondary and higher education to to the list of mandatory reporters of suspected abuse.

Drake's bill also prohibits a public or private employer from retaliating against a worker for reporting suspected child abuse or neglect.

"Children First came up with the bill, and I originally named it the Savannah Hardin Bill after the 9-year-old girl who was run to death in Attalla,"..."

http://www.al.com/opinion/index.ssf/2013/03/bill_to_expand_mandatory_repor.html

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