Northriver
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The nice folks in my state government are driving me crazy. There is way too much misinformation about car seat use in my state and much of it is coming directly from the state.
In addition to brochures that are printed and distributed promoting our weak state law and not mentioning best practice, the final straw for me was the State Patrol display at our State Fair last week that had 3 "seats", an infant seat for "Rear Facing 0-1 yr of age, up to 20 lbs" no mention that you should rear face longer, then a high back booster "forward facing 1-5 years 20-65 pounds", then a low back booster "booster seat or seatbelt 6-11 years of age"
So I called today to find out who was in charge of the display and the woman was insistent that yes, a high back booster was fine for a 1 yr old and the display was appropriate. I was just livid. I know I should have kept my temper and made some comment about being suprised that the State Patrol encourages the use of booster seats for babies considering the toupers are the ones that have to deal with children that have been ejected from booster, then thanked her and let her go. I was so mad.
I'm sorry if this is the wrong place to post this but really, I feel like I need to do something. Other than contacting legislators and working to get stronger CPS laws passed which would force state agencies to update their decade old CPS education campaign materials, is there anything that can be done to get state beurocrats to do their jobs?
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
In addition to brochures that are printed and distributed promoting our weak state law and not mentioning best practice, the final straw for me was the State Patrol display at our State Fair last week that had 3 "seats", an infant seat for "Rear Facing 0-1 yr of age, up to 20 lbs" no mention that you should rear face longer, then a high back booster "forward facing 1-5 years 20-65 pounds", then a low back booster "booster seat or seatbelt 6-11 years of age"
So I called today to find out who was in charge of the display and the woman was insistent that yes, a high back booster was fine for a 1 yr old and the display was appropriate. I was just livid. I know I should have kept my temper and made some comment about being suprised that the State Patrol encourages the use of booster seats for babies considering the toupers are the ones that have to deal with children that have been ejected from booster, then thanked her and let her go. I was so mad.
I'm sorry if this is the wrong place to post this but really, I feel like I need to do something. Other than contacting legislators and working to get stronger CPS laws passed which would force state agencies to update their decade old CPS education campaign materials, is there anything that can be done to get state beurocrats to do their jobs?
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.