Michelle Roberts, January 25, 2008
Legislators took a first step Thursday toward posting the names of caregivers who abuse people with disabilities on the Internet, where concerned family members or guardians could check them out.
The proposal, up for debate in next month's session of the Legislature, is part of a broader measure aimed at better protecting 4,200 developmentally disabled adults in group and foster homes across Oregon.
An investigation by The Oregonian reported in November that at least one in five adult clients in the state-licensed homes has been the victim of serious abuse or neglect since 2000, the year the state closed its primary residential institution for the developmentally disabled, the Fairview Training Center in Salem.
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