{"id":299637,"date":"2026-07-18T20:25:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T20:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/299637\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T20:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T20:25:08","slug":"lawmaker-proposes-program-to-help-vulnerable-new-yorkers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/299637\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawmaker proposes program to help vulnerable New Yorkers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(WRGB) \u2014 Assemblyman Angelo Santabarbara wants to create a new program to help people who are disabled or vulnerable.<\/p>\n<p>The New York State Take Me Home Program would create a voluntary registry authorized first responders could access before or during a crisis.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbs6albany.com\/news\/local\/assemblymember-santabarbara-joins-amsterdam-mohawks-for-annual-autism-night-at-park\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">MORE: Assemblymember Santabarbara joins Amsterdam Mohawks for annual Autism Night at park<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The registry would include photos, emergency contacts, behavioral information and more.<\/p>\n<p>This comes after the recent loss of Harbe Nagi last month. The 7-year-old boy was found dead in a Menands swimming pool. He was non-verbal and had autism.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbs6albany.com\/news\/local\/missing-boy-7-found-dead-harbe-nagi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PREVIOUS: Missing boy was found dead in neighbor&#8217;s pool, police say<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Santabarbara has a personal connection to this issue. His son, Michael, is on the autism spectrum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(WRGB) \u2014 Assemblyman Angelo Santabarbara wants to create a new program to help people who are disabled or&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299638,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,49,51,50],"class_list":["post-299637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}