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Board Unanimously Urges Voluntary Autism Safety Registration and Police Training
Summary
After a parent described dangerous elopement incidents, the State Board adopted a unanimous resolution urging the legislature to create voluntary, confidential local autism registration systems and to require autism-awareness and de‑escalation training for law enforcement and emergency responders.
A public comment from a parent whose nonverbal son twice eloped and wandered near busy roads helped animate a unanimous State Board vote urging voluntary autism safety registration programs and law-enforcement training.
"Today, I am asking you, the board members, I am pleading with you to consider passing the resolution for all police departments to have an optional registration system so that we as parents and family members will feel safe if our kids ever eloped," Stephanie Jones told the board…
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