I first introduced the bill in 2014, to honor Avonte Oquendo, a non-verbal boy with #autism, who bolted from his school in Queens. It felt like our whole city was looking for him, and we all mourned with his family when his body was found.
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As a result, I learned that bolting, elopement, & wandering are part of the everyday worries of caregivers & parents, and got to work looking for a way to provide voluntary GPS tracking devices to children or adults w/ developmental disorders, like Autism Spectrum Disorder.
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Just this month, we were again reminded of how critical Avonte's Law is after the heartbreaking disappearance of 14-year-old Trevyan Rowe in Rochester.
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Thanks to the work of Senator @klobucharoffice, “Kevin and Avonte’s Law” will become a reality & we’ll take a vital first step to ensuring lifesaving technology is available all across New York and the country.
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So, you've given up on DACA then?
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This is completely unrelated to DACA. Senators and lawmakers have multiple concerns to address, and talking about one of those doesn't mean he's given up on DACA.
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This is good to hear. Thank you!
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That's a separate, unrelated issue. It's possible to support many causes/issues at once, and wanting to champion this doesn't mean abandonment of DACA.
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That line in the sand keeps moving. Dems need to take a stand!
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DACA's important, and Democrats do need to take a stand, but this string of tweets, which concern protecting children with cognitive difficulties, isn't the place to address it.
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The President should veto every bill you submit to him. What you are doing to the President is horrible and disrespectful!
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So you don’t care for our children who have medical issues having protection, that my friend is horrible and disrespectful

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He cares for ONLY the mental president
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Thanks Senator for revisiting the important bill honoring Avonte Oquendo and potentially saving the lives of other non-verbal autistic youth.
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the teachers should be charged in the death of this child since they marked him present when in fact he wasn't. he didn't even go into build
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Why are you trying to get Americans to pay for a tunnel? If NY want a tunnel then you pay for it.
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1) if the tunnel is between states it's a federal issue, dude. anything going under the Hudson around NYC is a tunnel between New Jersey & New York, it's gotta be handled at the federal level 2) this is pretty tone-deaf to add to *this* string of tweets.
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Great Work Senator!
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