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Advocates press for stronger oversight after bulletininvestigation; AG and medical examiner seek narrower referral language
Summary
After a series of investigative reports on abuse and neglect in developmental services, the committee heard broad support for SB 670 to strengthen the incapacitated and vulnerable adult fatality review process. The attorney general and chief medical examiner warned the original language could sweep in too many deaths and asked for tightened definitions.
Senate Bill 670, proposed after investigative reporting that documented systemic abuse and neglect, would strengthen oversight of developmental services and clarify membership and duties of the incapacitated and vulnerable adult fatality review committee. Disability advocates, families and protection-and-advocacy groups strongly supported the bill as a way to improve data access and to surface preventable deaths and systemic failures.
Isadora Rodriguez Lejean of the New Hampshire Council on…
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