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Child advocate describes surge in incident reviews and staff comp time; seeks staffing stability
Summary
The state child advocate told the committee the office processed nearly 3,000 incident reports in the last fiscal year, opened several hundred citizen complaints and is staffed at nine full-time positions but had to leave one office coordinator position unfunded; staff are accruing compensatory time to meet workloads.
Cassandra Sanchez, the state Child Advocate, and Associate Child Advocate Alyssa Macchio briefed the committee on the office's oversight role and recent workload.
Sanchez said the office reviews child welfare and juvenile justice incidents across executive-branch child-serving agencies and that in the most recent fiscal year the office reviewed 2,937 incident reports and 86 critical incident reports, plus 1,500 restraint/seclusion reports. The office handled 349 citizen complaints and said it responds to every complaint.
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