{"id":5984,"date":"2012-05-16T08:39:27","date_gmt":"2012-05-16T12:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=5984"},"modified":"2012-05-16T10:49:06","modified_gmt":"2012-05-16T14:49:06","slug":"morning-read-sunmount-whistleblower-says-more-protections-needed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2012\/05\/16\/morning-read-sunmount-whistleblower-says-more-protections-needed\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Read:  Sunmount whistleblower says more protections needed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.adirondackdailyenterprise.com\/page\/content.detail\/id\/530861\/Whistleblowers-at-Sunmount--other-facilities-fault-plan-to-protect-disabled.html?nav=5047\">The Associated Press is reporting<\/a> that former government whistle blowers, including a former official at Sunmount in Tupper Lake, want even tougher oversight programs than the one Governor Andrew Cuomo is proposing to protect people with disabilities in state care.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Susan McLaughlin, who was a consumer advocate for the former state  Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities, recalled a  disabled client at the Sunmount facility in the Adirondacks who in 2004  had his fingernails cut so short that all his fingers bled.<\/p>\n<p>She wrote  top agency officials in 2005 attempting to report 15 specific cases of  illness, injury or death of disabled people in state care and what she  described then as &#8220;systemic problems.&#8221; She later sued after she was  terminated following 35 years with the state.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They should take  the top third of the administration right off the top,&#8221; McLaughlin said,  adding she got many anonymous calls from direct care staff who feared  losing their jobs, so she would report it. &#8220;And you need to bring in new  people with a different philosophy.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.adirondackdailyenterprise.com\/page\/content.detail\/id\/530861\/Whistleblowers-at-Sunmount--other-facilities-fault-plan-to-protect-disabled.html?nav=5047\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Associated Press is reporting that former government whistle blowers, including a former official at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[6786,22,4803],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5984"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5985,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5984\/revisions\/5985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}