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Representative Cushman urges subpoenas, body cameras and moving investigations to law enforcement
Summary
Representative Leah Cushman urged structural reforms including committee subpoena and warrant power, body cameras for social workers, statutory fixes to recent fitness-testing language, and moving abuse investigations to law enforcement to restore due process.
Representative Leah Cushman presented a detailed set of recommendations to the special committee and explained the constitutional basis for legislative enforcement powers. Cushman noted that her cease-and-desist email asking DCYF to stop "internal tribunals" and to put allegations into court was an attempt to protect due process and that she had not used threatening language.
Cushman argued the House and its committees already possess coercive…
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