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Cape and Islands District Attorney details new child‑protection team, trafficking work, fentanyl policy and data, and $1M SIMS grant
Summary
Cape and Islands District Attorney Rob Galloway updated Barnstable County commissioners on new child‑protection coordination, human‑trafficking training and conference activity, a fentanyl trafficking policy with local overdose data, a $1 million SIMS grant from Cape Cod Healthcare, and a request for roughly $580,000 in state funding to expand elder‑fraud investigations.
Cape and Islands District Attorney Rob Galloway briefed the Barnstable County Board of Commissioners on May 7 on a set of public‑safety initiatives, including a new Child Emergency Response Team, statewide human‑trafficking training, a fentanyl trafficking bail policy tied to local overdose data, a $1 million grant from Cape Cod Healthcare to expand the SIMS incident‑management database, and a request to state budget leaders for roughly $580,000 to combat elder fraud.
Galloway said the Child Emergency Response Team — CERT — is led by Courtney Scalise, chief of the office’s child protection unit, and brings prosecutors, victim‑witness staff, law enforcement, the region’s Children’s Cove forensic interview center and the Department of Children and Families together. “Whenever law enforcement or any one of the members of that team become aware of a child being a victim of either physical abuse or sexual abuse, the team…is notified,”…
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