Brief Description: Expands the Virginia Child Protection Accountability System, adding the Department of State Police and Circuit Courts to the list of entities required to report information about how they are responding to crimes against children.
Update:VICTORY! Please click here for the final version of the bill.
Background:
In 2009, PROTECT won a groundbreaking victory with passage of the Virginia Child Protection System. But opposition from many in the child protection and justice systems left just data from the social services reported. In 2010, PROTECT returned to build on this initial success with legislation giving citizens access to data from Virginia's State Police and Circuit Courts.
More Detail: When something is of value to you, you pay close attention to it. That's why Wal-Mart knows where a pair of shoes are from the time they leave the factory in China until they pass the cash register. They matter. But we don't do the same for children.Children enter the great maw of the child protection and justice system and are too often simply lost. We send vulnerable boys and girls into bureaucracies so big and tough they bring adults to their knees. Yet, the bright sunshine of accountability rarely follows.
Sunshine is one of the most important reforms possible to advance child protection. And PROTECT is proud to say it continues to build an accountability model in Virginia for other states to follow that will give citizens the information they need to know how their public servants are doing when it comes to their most sacred obligation.
Asking public systems to open themselves to greater transparency and accountability is not easy. It's far more challenging than just putting another law on the books, but PROTECT will continue to fight for it.
Authorities are sitting on explosive evidence that could stop child predators in your community. Here's what you can do about it:
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The National Association to Protect Children is a national, pro-child, anti-crime membership association. We are founded on the belief that our first and most sacred obligation as parents, citizens, and members of the human species is the protection of children from harm.
PROTECT is a bipartisan pro-child, anti-crime lobby whose sole focus is making the protection of children a top political and policy priority at the national, state and local level.
