Midlands News Archives

12th Annual Children’s Advocacy Center Day Press Conference

5 April 2023

April is Child Abuse Prevention month and April 4th, 2023 was Children’s Advocacy Center (CAC) Day in South Carolina. Hundreds of professionals and CAC supporters joined Attorney General Alan Wilson, the South Carolina Network of Children’s Advocacy Centers (SCNCAC), Children’s Trust of South Carolina, and members of the General Assembly for the 12th Annual Children’s Advocacy Center Day both in person and via livestream from the South Carolina State Capitol. Governor McMaster issued a Governor’s Proclamation declaring April 4, 2023 as Children’s Advocacy Center Day in South Carolina to recognize the valuable contributions that Children’s Advocacy Centers make to protect…

Lively Testifies before the SC Committee on Children About Child Forensic Interview Recording Protections

15 October 2022

The South Carolina Network of Children’s Advocacy Centers General Counsel, Candice Lively, testified before the Joint Citizens and Legislative Committee on Children during the committee’s fall hearing in Columbia on October 12, 2022. Lively spoke with the committee about forensic interviews of children and how the SCNCAC Forensic Interview Recording Evidence Management system protects these recordings and meets rules of discovery for court proceedings in child abuse cases. The Joint Citizens and Legislative Committee on Children is a consortium of appointed citizens, legislators, and agency directors charged with the critical responsibility of identifying and studying key issues facing South Carolina’s…

11th Annual CAC Day Press Conference

6 April 2022

As part of Child Abuse Prevention month, the 11th Annual Children’s Advocacy Center Day was April 5th, and the office of the Attorney General hosted a press conference which was attended by Children’s Advocacy Center leaders and supporters from across South Carolina. In addition to those joining in person, hundreds of Children’s Advocacy Center staff, multidisciplinary team partners, and supporters also joined via livestream. Attorney General Alan Wilson, and representatives from the South Carolina Network of Children’s Advocacy Centers, Children’s Trust of South Carolina, the Department of Children’s Advocacy, the Department of Social Services,…

WLTX News19 Covers SC Child Abuse Response Protocol

12 May 2021

The local CBS Columbia affiliate WLTX featured a story on the 6pm newscast on May 11, 2021 regarding the SC Child Abuse Response Protocol Act which is a new law enacted in South Carolina on May 6, 2021. You can view the portion of the news broadcast dealing with the protocol by clicking on the image below.