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Commission spotlights child deaths and launches cross-system prevention reporting
Summary
The child death review board presented four recommendations including firearm-storage laws, prenatal safe-sleep education, rear-seat restraint requirements for children, and stronger THC-product labeling. The executive director previewed new monthly reporting that will track child deaths by cause to coordinate prevention efforts.
Liz Cop, program manager for the Child Death Review Board, presented the board's 2026 recommendations drawn from case reviews: criminalize negligent firearm storage that allows unsupervised child access; deliver safe-sleep education beginning in the prenatal period; amend Title 47 (11-112) to require rear-seat restraints for all children and allow citations without a prerequisite offense; and ask the Oklahoma Medical Marijuana Authority to…
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