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Moira O'Neill is New Hampshire's Child Advocate. (COURTESY PHOTO)

CONCORD — Moira O’Neill, director of the New Hampshire Office of Child Advocate, told members of the Commission on Law Enforcement Accountability, Community and Transparency that schools need social workers more than police officers.

“We have to be very careful about normalizing the expectation of criminality and violence in children’s lives,” O’Neill said.

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