LYNN — Local businesses and organizations sponsor City Hall forums today and Thursday at 9 a.m. focused on spotting and ending child abuse.
The forums will be held in the City Council Chamber on City Hall’s top floor with Kate B. MacDougall, Chief of the Family Crimes and Sexual Assault Unit of the Essex District Attorney’s Office since June 2006, speaking at 10 a.m. on Thursday.
MacDougall oversees the investigation and prosecution of all cases involving child abuse and exploitation, sexual assault and domestic violence. In 2011, she was named a Top Women of the Law by Massachusetts Lawyer’s Weekly.
Forum sponsors include The Daily Item, Economic Development and Industrial Corporation, Lynn Housing Authority & Neighborhood Development and the law office of James Carrigan.