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April 9, 2015

Local legislator champions mental health training for police

His parents, Chip and Gail, said their son had struggled with paranoid schizophrenia for more than two decades. They support LD 534, a bill proposed by Rep. Richard Malaby (R-Hancock) that would require 20 percent of the officers within a local police department and county sheriff’s office to receive crisis intervention team (CIT) training by January 2017.

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