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Michigan House OKs bills aiming to better child-abuse probes

by Associated Press
| January 17, 2020 12:05 AM

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan's child-welfare law would be updated to clarify that caseworkers must make contact within 24 hours to assess the well-being of each child in a household where abuse or neglect is suspected under a bill approved Thursday by the state House.

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