Bill Text: GA HR1967 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Sumter County; commend

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2012-03-21 - House Read and Adopted [HR1967 Detail]

Download: Georgia-2011-HR1967-Introduced.html

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12 LC 93 1435

House Resolution 1967

By: Representatives Manning of the 32nd and Cheokas of the 134th

A RESOLUTION

Recognizing and commending Sumter County; and for other purposes.

WHEREAS, Sumter County is one of the counties that has timely submitted a comprehensive Child Abuse Protocol to the Office of the Child Advocate for the Protection of Children in accordance with Georgia law; and

WHEREAS, Sumter County has developed a Child Abuse Protocol Committee whose mission is to write, review, and establish the protocol document, outlining in detail the procedures to be used in investigating and prosecuting cases arising from alleged child abuse and the methods to be used in coordinating treatment programs for the child and family; and

WHEREAS, Sumter County's Child Abuse Protocol Committee works to coordinate the efforts of all agencies, which investigate, treat, and manage cases of child abuse and neglect; and

WHEREAS, the Office of the Child Advocate for the Protection of Children acknowledges Sumter County for its collective work on behalf of children in its county by working together as one community with law enforcement, mental health, public health, the Department of Family and Child Services, the district attorney, county board of education, coroner, board of health, court appointed special advocates, and magistrate, juvenile, state, and superior courts; and

WHEREAS, it is abundantly fitting and proper that the outstanding accomplishments of this community be appropriately recognized.

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES that the members of this body commend Sumter County for the development of its Child Abuse Protocol that follows the state model and its work in making Georgia a safer place for children.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Clerk of the House of Representatives is authorized and directed to transmit an appropriate copy of this resolution to the Sumter County Child Abuse Protocol Committee.