Thursday, September 08, 2005

Chandler task force to help draft policy on breast-feeding (East Valley Tribune)

Chandler’s Breast-Feeding Task Force will get to work this week. The group of mothers, business leaders and city officials are scheduled to meet Thursday to begin drawing up recommendations to the City Council on how public breastfeeding should be addressed in Chandler.

Controversy over an unwritten policy at a city pool led to the task force after a Tempe mother was told to breast-feed her infant son in a public restroom at the pool.

Now that Tempe mom, Amy Milliron, wants both the city or the state to pass laws protecting mothers who breast-feed their children in public.

"I would hope for both, actually," said Milliron, one of four mothers selected for the task force.



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