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Child-advocate and camp groups back SB157 to extend basic safety rules to municipal camps
Summary
The Office of the Child Advocate urged the committee to extend mandated-reporter and background‑check rules to municipal and other license‑exempt youth camps; industry and municipal representatives supported a phased approach and urged coordination to avoid undue burden on small towns.
Christina Guillot, acting child advocate, told the Committee on Children the office supports SB157 and recommended expanding safeguards for municipal youth camps and other license‑exempt childcare settings.
Guillot testified that municipal youth camps and other license‑exempt programs fall outside many Office of Early Childhood licensure requirements and are therefore not always covered by mandated‑reporting rules, mandated‑reporter training, or the same background‑check standards applied to licensed settings. "We would urge the committee…
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