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This resolution establishes a comprehensive study committee to examine the human rights protections and potential reforms across six critical public service areas in South Carolina: foster care, disability services, services for victims of gender-based violence, prison systems, institutional services, and adult protective services. The 14-member committee, composed of state agency directors or their designees, will create detailed subcommittees for each focus area to investigate specific challenges and recommend legislative or policy changes. The committee will explore issues such as expanding foster parent recruitment, improving accessibility for individuals with disabilities, developing trauma-informed victim services, reducing prison recidivism, enhancing institutional care standards, and protecting vulnerable adults. The study committee is required to provide an initial progress report by January 1, 2027, and a final comprehensive report with findings and recommendations by January 1, 2028, after which the committee will be dissolved. The resolution emphasizes that human rights are fundamental, inherent freedoms that cannot be taken away and that it is the government's responsibility to ensure vulnerable individuals are protected, treated with dignity, and provided necessary support across various public systems.

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