Should there be electronic monitoring in vulnerable adult group homes? That’s the issue a state House–Senate study committee considered Wednesday at a meeting. It delved into a proposal that would allow cameras into private rooms as an option if families so choose.
Prescott-area State Representative Selina Bliss read a statement from her seatmate, Quang Nguyen:
But opponents argue families already have the freedom to install cameras into a relative’s room, and a statewide mandate would remove that choice. Opponents also raise privacy concerns about marital intimacy when older married couples are roomed together. Under the plan, consent would be required.