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Children's Advocacy asks for investigators, guardians ad litem and recurring support amid rising incident reports
Summary
Amanda Whittle, director of the Department of Children's Advocacy, said the agency handled 2,894 critical incident notifications in FY24 and requested $3.25 million recurring plus $416,000 nonrecurring to add investigators, attorneys and guardian ad litem staff and cover IT and lease costs.
Amanda Whittle, director of the Department of Children's Advocacy, presented the agency's FY26 budget request and described workload increases that the department says outstrip current capacity.
Whittle said the department received 2,894 critical incident notifications in FY24 and that the system improvement division conducted 1,161 investigations. "We're asking for five…
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