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Children's Advocacy Center seeks support for forensic interviews and secure recording systems
Summary
Shannon Perry, director of community outreach for the Children's Advocacy Center (Southeastern Indiana), asked the council to consider support for forensic interviews and advocacy services, noting the Madison office completed 121 interviews in 2025 and that cases require secure, high‑grade data storage.
Shannon Perry, director of community outreach for the Children's Advocacy Center (Southeastern Indiana), briefed the council on the center’s role providing forensic interviews, prevention programming and family advocacy across six counties.
Perry said the Madison office conducted 121 interviews in 2025 and that since 2009 the regional CAC has completed 1,851 forensic interviews. She said 55 of the 121 interviews were abuse‑based in 2025 and emphasized that forensic interviews and secure audio‑visual recording and storage are foundational to investigations and prosecutions.
Perry asked the council to consider support for forensic interviewing capacity and for equipment or secure storage upgrades, and she offered to follow up with staff to answer technical questions about recording systems.
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