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Speakers at Rockford meeting raise child-death investigations, neighborhood entrepreneurship and tenant concerns
Summary
Public comments at the April 7 Rockford City Council meeting included calls for better child death review and abuse investigation, support for children selling bottled water, and complaints about property management and policing at a downtown housing building.
Several residents addressed the Rockford City Council during the public comment portion of the April 7 meeting, focusing on child-death investigations, neighborhood support for children selling bottled water and a tenant’s complaint about building management and police response.
Prophet Yousef called attention to what he described as a child abuse epidemic and shortcomings in how jurisdictions investigate suspicious child deaths, and urged expanded use of…
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