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Panel unanimously backs bill broadening protections for child-welfare workers
Summary
Senate Bill 68 would extend criminal penalties for threats and assaults against child-welfare workers performing official duties. Sponsors said prosecutors had at times declined to use the existing statute; committee voted 5–0 to favorably recommend the bill.
Senate Bill 68, titled Child Welfare Worker Protection, was presented to the Senate Judiciary committee and favorably recommended to the full Senate on a 5–0 vote.
Sponsor Senator Vickers told the committee the bill is an update to 2019 legislation (SB 59) spurred by field reports that threats and assaults against child-welfare workers were not always being…
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