MASSACHUSETTS
The Foxboro Reporter
By Bera Dunau The Foxboro Reporter Mar 2, 2017
The Foxboro Child Sexual Abuse Awareness Committee is hitting the books
At its February meeting, the committee discussed the input it received on Jan. 23 from Massachusetts State Rep. Theodore Speliotis, D-Danvers on its effort to expand the definition of a mandatory reporter for child abuse and neglect in Foxboro. Speliotis is the House Third Reading Committee Chairman, and he expressed a preference for expanding the definition statewide, as opposed to just in Foxboro.
“He alluded that they (the legislature) don’t like to do that, because it confuses people,” said Foxboro Child Sexual Abuse Awareness Committee Chair Bob Correia.
Two bills have been submitted in the legislature, one which would expand the definition statewide and another that is a home rule petition that would just do so in Foxboro.
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