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Cape and Islands district attorney outlines new child-response team, trafficking work, fentanyl policy and elder-fraud push
Summary
District Attorney Robert Galloway told Barnstable County delegates the office has launched a child emergency response team, expanded human‑trafficking training with new grants, used a policy to hold fentanyl traffickers without bail and drafted a funding request to tackle rising elder fraud.
Robert Galloway, district attorney for the Cape and Islands, told the Barnstable County Assembly of Delegates on April 16 that his office has launched a multi-agency child emergency response team, expanded human‑trafficking work with state grant funding and is pursuing new resources to investigate elder fraud.
Galloway described the new CERT program as a cross-agency effort that notifies law enforcement, the Department of Children and Families and local victim services “so we can properly and thoroughly investigate” allegations affecting children. “Whenever we have instances when our most vulnerable victims, our children, are subject to a physical or sexual assault, in real time, all of the team members are notified,” Galloway said.
The nut of the office’s recent anti‑trafficking work is grant-funded training and a statewide conference, Galloway said. After a roughly $100,000 award last year that funded four trainings on…
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