Thursday, March 22, 2012
Sen. Mike Rose's amendment, which makes sexual abuse reporting mandatory for all adults, passes the Senate and moves on to the House.
The House will review a bill soon that seeks to expand those required to report suspected child physical or sexual abuse. But while it requires a person over the age of 18 year old to report abuse, it only assigns misdemeanors for failing to report to professionals outlined in the original bill and those with direct contact with children, which has been expanded to include camp counselors and firefighters. Sen. Mike Rose, R-Summerville, penned the amendment. On Rose's Facebook page Thursday, he made a post about the amendment passing in the Senate. "Glad to see this passed!" he wrote. The amendment will make it so that "all persons whose duties require direct contact or supervision of children" and "a person, other than a minor" must …
Monday, March 19, 2012
South Carolina near the bottom for corruption risk
South Carolina ranks among the states most likely to suffer from government corruption, according to a study released Monday. The Palmetto State earned an "F" in the study, conducted by the Center for Public Integrity, because it lacked accountability, its ethics commission was deemed inadequate and campaign finance laws were not strict enough. "An undercurrent of fear and political interference bubbles throughout the state’s civil service, one that is shot through with cronyism and patronage," Corey Hutchins, the State Integrity Investigation reporter for South Carolina, wrote in his report. The report graded states on 14 categories from the public's ability to access information to internal auditing to legislative accountability. South …
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
New alert system tells public if police officer is shot, kidnapped
Gov. Nikki Haley signed a bill into law Tuesday that will create a public alert system when a suspect seriously injures, kills or kidnaps a police officer. The Blue Alert program requires the State Law Enforcement Division to define the instances that call for emergency alerts and develop a system of informing the public about those instances using television, radio and Department of Transportation highway signs. Haley credited Rep. Eddie Tallon (R-Spartanburg) as an important force behind the bill's passage. South Carolina is the 14th state to enact such a law, Haley said. “Since July 2011, we have lost three officers in the line of duty in the state of South Carolina,” Tallon said. "An assailant who flees after killing, seriously …
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Gov. Haley says the Senate needs to finish the bill tonight
Gov. Nikki Haley flexed her political muscles Tuesday night when she called an impromptu press conference to insist that the Senate finish a bill that would create a new Department of Administration. Haley said the Senate should remain in session "through the night" to finish work on the bill, according to the South Carolina Radio Network. The Senate has been working on the bill for five weeks. The bill would transfer some responsiblities of the controversial Budget and Control Board to the Department of Administration, which would become part of the executive branch. After the press conference, multiple Senators criticized Haley on the Senate floor. "Our governor just had a news conference saying the Senate was going to stay in session …
Laura
5:34 pm on Tuesday, April 24, 2012
I think all persons over the age of 18 have a responsibility to take action and report any suspected abuse of any minor child. They cannot take care of themselves and if the parents aren't then we the people in the community, school, daycare, etc. have to step in for the child. Do not turn your head and not say anything. Because if you do, you then become the abuser. more ›