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Marsha Blackburn: “Our policy is that if the risk assessment indicates, we need to switch them to phone from text, and that was one of…”

On the recordSeptember 20, 2023
Our policy is that if the risk assessment indicates, we need to switch them to phone from text, and that was one of our--that was one of the things that we did wrong in this situation.
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Marsha Blackburn
Republican · Tennessee

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Blackburn questions the protocol for crisis line communication and highlights a failure in response.

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