(From KGCS)Missouri passed the Safe Place for Newborns Act in 2001 to protect newborn babies from injury due to abandonment and allow a parent to permanently give up a newborn without prosecution. In 2021, the state passed a law legalizing the use of newborn drop-off boxes. Now, two of those boxes are in place at fire stations in Joplin and Carthage. The Safe Haven Baby Boxes are the focus of the next Newsmakers program.
Joplin Fire Chief Gerald Ezell and Carthage Fire Marshall Eli Maples explain how the boxes function at stations. CB Eastman and Karolyn Shrage of LifeChoices discuss fundraising to purchase and install the temperature-controlled bassinets. Mary Anne Phillips shares a piece of Joplin history recounting a “baby in the bushes” incident that made national headlines in 1945.
Newsmakers is airing nightly at 5 p.m. and 9 p.m. beginning April 27 on KGCS-TV and will air at 5:30 a.m. Saturday, May 3 on KOAM-TV. It is also posted on the station’s YouTube channel: KGCS – Missouri Southern State University.
KGCS-TV will be off-the-air during a planned outage beginning April 29 weather permitting. MSSU is moving the station transmitter to the KXMS-FM broadcast tower on campus.
KGCS-TV programming can be seen on channel 21 and is also available on regional cable television systems such as Sparklight, Mediacom and Suddenlink Communications. The station operates as a service of the Department of Communication at Missouri Southern State University.
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