mandated reporter

Senator Montigny's bill would ban conversion therapy and require doctors, teachers, and other "mandated reporters" to report cases to the Department of Children and Families.

Retired New Bedford Police K-9 officer Jean Gomes was convicted Monday afternoon in Fall River Superior Court of indecently touching a child. The Bristol County District Attorney’s Office tells WBSM News that Gomes, 60, was convicted on one count of indecent assault and battery on a child under 14 by a mandated reporter...