PROTECT in Sacramento, Nashville

Thursday, 30 April 2009 01:19

PROTECT was coast-to-coast yesterday. We were at the California statehouse for Victim's Rights Week and at the capitol in Nashville, Tennessee.

In Tennessee, we are advancing several bills to protect children. The Minutes Count bill, sponsored by Rep. Harry Tindell and Sen. Tim Burchett, will create an administrative subpoena for child exploitation, allowing investigators to get to possible child victims much faster. The Second Look Commission bill will create a panel of independent experts to re-open cases of children who have been failed twice by the child protection system. Two other bills, sought by Tennessee child abuse prosecutors and taken up by PROTECT would increase the protections for children who have suffered broken bones at the hands of abusers.

Below: Nina Salarno Ashford of Crime Victims United of California speaks yesterday at the California statehouse.

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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.

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