Recommendations

The Alabama State Child Death Review Team makes recommendations to the Governor and helps propose and support legislation. Since the establishment of ACDRS, it has provided the following recommendations:

• Teen driver safety awareness and education
• Enhancements to the Graduated Driver's License law
• Prohibition of distracting electronic devices while driving
• Improved child passenger safety restraint requirements
• Improved ATV safety regulations
• Prohibition of truck bed passengers
• Education regarding safe infant bedding and practices
• Awareness of infant bed-sharing dangers
• Improved infant death scene investigations
• Increased use of smoke alarms and carbon monoxide detectors
• Improved access to health care
• Improved day care safety rules
• Improved swimming area safety

ACDRS Successes

• Legislation passed into law: "Safe Place" Law (2000), Graduated Driver's License - GDL - (2002), "Baby Douglas" Day Care Medication (2004), Child Passenger Safety Law (2006), GDL Enhancements (2010), and "SUIDI" Law (2011)
• Pending legislative efforts: prohibition of passengers in open truck beds, further enhancements to child passenger safety restraint laws, and ATV restrictions/safety requirements
• Education and outreach efforts: Shaken Baby Syndrome/abusive head trauma prevention efforts, "Back to Sleep" campaign, Cribs for Kids program, ATV safety campaign, youth suicide prevention efforts, teen driver safety campaign, and "SUIDI" training