Lansing, MI – State Representative Will Bruck has introduced a Bill that would allow fire departments throughout the state to install specially designed boxes where newborn babies can be surrendered safely.
Since 2001, Michigan’s Safe Delivery of Newborns Law has allowed parents to surrender their newborns to hospitals, as well as police and fire stations. More than 240 babies have been safely surrendered in Michigan since 2001.
Bruck’s plan, House Bill 5407, would expand current law to allow communities throughout Michigan to install baby drop boxes at fire stations as a method to surrender a newborn child safely, legally and anonymously.
Baby safety boxes are specially designed to be installed in the exterior wall of a safe and temperature-controlled location. Sensors are attached that notify emergency responders within seconds of an infant being placed inside.
The boxes would be optional, and municipalities would be required to secure their own funding. Bruck’s Bill was referred to the House Families, Children and Seniors Committee. Bruck represents a portion of eastern Lenawee County in Lansing.
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