What’s Lisa’s Law?

Although staff shortages burden Taiwanese social workers with heavy workloads, and force them to frequently exceed their working hours in order meet the needs of individual clients, their zeal for the job is in no way diminished. The main problem lies in the nature of the job, where social workers must make unaccompanied visits to clients, putting them at risk of physical or sexual assault.

As a result of a knife attack at the Social Affairs Bureau of Kaohsiung City Government’s Home for the Disabled (高雄市社會局無障礙之家) on June 3, 2013, workers began calling for greater safeguards and launched an activity to highlight Lisa’s Law (麗莎法案), which they believe is urgently required in Taiwan. Lisa’s Law came about after a social worker named Lisa was violently murdered for refusing to divulge information about a case regarding the whereabouts of a child, who had been forcibly removed from the birth parents and placed in care. The sad event impelled the American government to place greater importance on the safety of social workers and on September 1, 2001, Michigan (密西根州) enacted Lisa's Law.

What’s Lisa’s Law?
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(以下是中文對照)

Lisa是什麼 什麼是Lisa

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台灣社工常因為人手不足，造成很重的工作負擔，上下班時間也經常為了個案超時工作，但是這些都不會抹滅他們為社會付出的心。真正的問題是社工經常獨立執行工作，很容易在拜訪個案時發生受傷或是性侵的危險，二零一三年六月三日，高雄市社會局無障礙之家，發生了一起社工被砍傷的事件。因此有社工發起了「我們是社工，我們需要Lisa的保護」舉牌拍照秀活動，讓大家能夠認識了解麗莎法案，希望未來台灣社工們也有Lisa的保護。麗莎法案起源自一位叫Lisa的社工，他因為不願意透露，被強制安置孩童的案件通報者資料而被殺害，此事件促使美國政府重視社工職業安全，並制訂相關法規；麗莎法案於2001年在密西根州通過施行。

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