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Infant homicies: States with Child Death Review boards

The "Saving Babies: Exposing Sudden Infant Death in America" reporting project by Scripps Howard News Service has found that states with aggressive networks of Child Death Review boards are much more likely than other states to detect infant homicides and accidental suffocations. The following show whether each state has no child death review, state review only, local review only or both state and local review.

	Alabama ................ Local
	Alaska ................. State
	Arizona ................ Both
	Arkansas ............... State
	California ............. Local
	Colorado ............... Both
	Connecticut ............ State
	Delaware ............... Both
	District of Columbia ... State
	Florida ................ Both
	Georgia ................ Local
	Hawaii ................. Local
	Idaho .................. None
	Illinois ............... Local
	Indiana ................ Both
	Iowa ................... State
	Kansas ................. State
	Kentucky ............... Both
	Louisiana .............. Local
	Maine .................. State
	Maryland ............... Local
	Massachusetts .......... Local
	Michigan ............... Local
	Minnesota .............. Both
	Mississippi ............ State
	Missouri ............... Local
	Montana ................ Local
	Nebraska ............... State
	Nevada ................. Local
	New Hampshire .......... State
	New Jersey ............. Both
	New Mexico ............. State
	New York ............... Local
	North Carolina ......... Both
	North Dakota ........... State
	Ohio ................... Local
	Oklahoma ............... Both
	Oregon ................. Local
	Pennsylvania ........... Local
	Rhode Island ........... State
	South Carolina ......... Both
	South Dakota ........... Local
	Tennessee .............. Local
	Texas .................. Local
	Utah ................... State
	Vermont ................ State
	Virginia ............... Both
	Washington ............. Local
	West Virginia .......... State
	Wisconsin .............. Local
	Wyoming ................ Local
	

Source: The National Center for Child Death Review State Profile Database, February 2007.

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