Improving child safety on the agenda
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- April
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Gov. David Paterson announced today that the state would provide $1.17 million in grants to help communities improve child safety. The money will enable more thorough investigations and prosecutions of child abuse, neglect and maltreatment, and will expand services for victims.
“These grants will help communities establish the proper child safety infrastructure that will act in the best interest of the children who can’t defend themselves from neglect or abuse,” the governor said in a statement.
Some of the 12 funded projects are:
—$50,000 to Bivona Child Advocacy Center in Monroe County and $47,250 to the Putnam County Department of Social Services to improve multi-disciplinary teams and child advocacy centers.
—$143,110 to the Ulster County Department of Social Services and $150,000 to the Young Women’s Christian Association of Cortland County to help start multi-disciplinary teams and child advocacy centers.
—$182,168 to start a child-fatality review program through the Broome County Health Department.
—$49,750 to enhance the Chemung County Department of Social Services’ child-fatality review program.
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Three questions:
1. Do we have police departments?
2. Do we have Child Protective Services?
3. Do have a number of other child-related agencies?
4. Do we have district attorneys’ offices, many
with special child-crime bureaus?
If the answer to those questions is “We have all of those,” then one more question: Why is this taxpayer money necessary in a state that is about to go broke?
And, why does the governor announce this? Is this the bone that Silver and Bruno threw him – a million dollar slushfund to peddle to the public via a press conference/release? Guess the legislators were satisfied with all their porkchop deliveries and let him have this one. Surprised it didn’t go to his wife’s hospital – but that’s probably an allocation that is buried somewhere away from the general public’s view.
Start investigating these four agencies, and their ties to both state Democrats and to our new governor.
Paul Revere is right. Enough agencies exist to protect children.
These disbursements are nothing more than convenient “earmarks” to local constituents.